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Technology Stocks : CellularVision (CVUS): 2-way LMDS wireless cable. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Night Writer who wrote (1395)	3/4/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: CAP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Night Writer, All, Copied this article from a news service infobeat.com This is one of the emerging products that has a direct application to CVUS' LMDS technology. Internet Telephony is CHEAP... if you then carry it on a system that costs a fraction to build out when compared to a standard telephone infrastructure... bingo... you have a "telephone company." Not just for here in the states but in all of the developing countries of the world who can't afford to string or bury wires and who will need a system that has plenty of growth potential for future applications. If you started from scratch with wireless, put telephone through the internet.. not just last mile but every mile, including an up link node in the system to satellites, you would have enough bandwidth left over to carry many other products and services... Internet data, TV etc. with world-wide high speed connectivity. In short... reinvent the way we and the world look at communications. The world view is needed here. Teledesic, Irridium etc etc.. world wide communications... does that mean everybody in the world is going to have a satellite dish on their roof?? Of course not... so we are going to take the high rate from the bird and beam it down to an earth terminal just to stuff it into some third world phone system or even our own copper wires??? Makes no sense. It seems to me that we have lost the VISION for what this could be as we are trying to build out an operating system for NYC. Time to put the focus back out on the horizon. We are sitting on the next great WORLD CLASS technology here!! I think that some of this frustration is showing in posts that I've read lately. If this was the plan all along, I missed it. What do you all think? Here's the article that pushed me up on this soapbox. Sorry for the ranting... just can't believe we have this tech and can't get folks to see some of the possibilities. Net telephony seen as $8 billion market Microsoft Corp.'s announcement yesterday it wants to set the standard for supplying the technology for Internet telephony indicates the company sees a large business possibility. Today, the technology consultancy Killen & Associates forecast the market in 2003 will be worth $8 billion for Internet service providers who offer IP telephony services including voice, fax and video. Michael Killen, president of the company. "Businesses are easily motivated by the prospect of reducing their telecommunications expenses by as much as 50," remarked Michael Killen. "IP telephony services will not be a 'hard sell' for ISPs as the technology improves over the next few years," he predicted. "All ISPs -- large and small -- must consider a plan to offer IP telephony services to their customers. Those who rule it out or delay too long will soon regret their decision." Killen & Associates is based in Palo Alto, Ca.