To: elmatador who wrote (59391 ) 1/25/2005 4:26:24 PM From: Maurice Winn Respond to ElM, I understand that there is some engineering and integration with other services, and there are government strictures and so on in getting the bits back from the base stations to cyberspace. But it's not that big a deal. It has been achieved in swarms of networks all over the world and megabit per second data rates are doable in many places. The air interface is where there were $100 billion in bids in Europe. Most of the cost in a cyberphone call is in the air interface, not the backhaul. roamad.com It wasn't that big a deal. When the number of potential subscribers and the amount they'd pay is sufficient, we can roll the same network out right across the city. We can upgrade to 802.11n for even faster cyberspace access. We can offer skype.com for cheap voice services, on the hoof, to around the world. US2c a minute is a good price for the backhaul to the other side of the world and something like US5c a minute would make a RoamAD network profitable. Easy peasy. The backhaul is no big deal. It's just another organisational and engineering cost.
