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To: david waitt who wrote (8113)	12/11/1997 12:13:00 AM
From: Craig Richards	Respond to of 9285

Metricom comments: <snip> Their service is only practical for densely populated cities and towns, not for rural areas.<snip> WHY? Are you aware of what KN Energy is doing in small towns in the mid-west? No, I'm not aware of what KN Energy is doing in small towns in the mid-west. Feel free to fill me in about this. However, it seems to me that Ricochet makes the most economic sense in densely populated areas. I find it hard to imagine that Metricom is going to go to a lot of trouble to put Ricochet modems on utility poles in the backwoods of Alaska on the off chance that they might get a subscriber near by. I'd think they'd be concentrating on places with a higher return for their effort, such as NY city. By the time they would get around to thinking about rural areas, I'd imagine that those areas would be pretty well covered by satellite systems. Don't you agree that there are a lot of major metropolitan areas that should be covered before it makes sense for Metricom to cover rural areas? It might make sense to move this over to the Metricom thread, feel free to respond over there if you want.