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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (4034)	2/26/1998 3:45:00 PM
From: Elliot W	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Any thoughts on WinStar + 28Mhz: One thing I was thinking about was the combo of two wide swatches of bandwidth - say WinStar's present allocation to "beam" to the roofs they have and then use the newer 28Mhz (CVUS technology) to reflect and/or rebroadcast - without crosstalk to the bandwidth challenged masses. Why can't anyone spell HDTV, two way internet is nice, but about 2Ghz of bandwidth; what's that down the road? Maybe about 100 to 150 channels of HDTV - can anyone spell HUGE market? Don't need the return channels. Just my hopeless thoughts. Elliot

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (4034)	2/26/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Mike Nelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Rain will attenuate and increase the errors in the signals. All the LMDS/PMP (whatever u classify as) companies have this issue. Its a basic RF stuff. Just like cellular, u can blast the signals. But as you start having more subscribers (cells) u have to start decreasing your signals. So, all these companies are now emitting at a higher power and hence they don't have any major problem with this. As time goes on, they will atleast start having a humidity based power output (at a very basic level).