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To: Joey Smith who wrote (176686)	1/27/2004 4:38:07 PM
From: shoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

In a blow to the fiber-optics sector, he added, "There is no great fiber build-out going on. Some kind of wireless capacity is necessary to reach the last mile." ********* If we could solve the problem of security (good encryption), WiMax could be the solution to the DSL monopoly. My choices are SBC, Comcast, and Covad: all $40 a month and more.

To: Joey Smith who wrote (176686)	1/28/2004 3:28:55 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Hi Joey, "In an announcement last week that didn't get nearly the attention I thought it deserved, Intel (INTC) said that it was hoping to do for WiMax what its enormously successful Centrino chip has done for WiFi, which is to make it the state-of-the-art technology for wireless broadband transmission into the home. In my view this could be Big. Big, that is, for Intel and its technology partners. It could be terrible for all the fiber-optics companies still betting on broadband access over fiber-optic cables. Needless to say, this has enormous investment implications." yahoo.smartmoney.com. I love this, only question is: what's the max # of devices in its geographical range, assuming adequate through-put per device and everyone is on at once, in a block where there are many separate users and a thousand devices. I assume the 30mile wimax range is configurable to a narrow line-of-site range or a smaller range in order to maximize deployment of more wimax sources in an area so as to max the total # of devices in a geographical area and help min security issues. Remember the game, "king of the hill"? Maybe there's a wimax kids game here. Neighbor goes out of town...and a game of "king of the wimax hill" ensues - for the "free" channel? Don't leave home without locking your doors, turning off the stove, and locking your wimax channel? Regards, Amy J