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

To: JW@KSC who wrote (1652)	3/20/1998 3:45:00 PM
From: James Fink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Jim Wilkinson wins the prize for longest post on record.

To: JW@KSC who wrote (1652)	3/20/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: James Fink	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2063

Shant should spend more time with CVUS and less time with his home-building business: Friday March 20, 2:19 pm Eastern Time Hovnanian says to acquire a Virginia builder RED BANK, N.J., March 20 (Reuters) - Hovnanian Enterprises Inc said Friday it agreed to pay cash to acquire the assets of Woodbridge, Virginia-based P.C. Homes in a deal that Hovnanian sees as accretive to its earnings per share in fiscal 1998. Hovnanian, a builder of single-family and homes and townhouses, did not disclose additional terms of the transaction in its press release. The company expects to complete the transaction in its fiscal third quarter ending July 31. P.C. Homes, which builds homes in northern Virginia, had 1997 revenues of $27 million. P.C. Homes expects to deliver 175 new homes in 1998 up from 153 homes in 1997.

To: JW@KSC who wrote (1652)	3/20/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: ray hackett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Rain and line of sight Sorry to rain on someone's parade but the other vendors don't believe in the whole reflection/repeater story. I would rather believe Lucent/Bosch/Stanford/HP/Nortel/BNI than CT&T. As I said, the real important issue is the 2-way service, which we are going to need for sure. As to rain, sure just shrink the cells to accommodate the rain fade. There is nothing special about 28GHz in rainfade. Rain effects all radio signals, from analog cell phones all the way to wcii's frequencies. All that changes is the degree of absorption.

To: JW@KSC who wrote (1652)	3/20/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Bernard Levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Dear Jim: Shant is not always absolutely correct: a) The higher the frequency, the more LOS the propagation becomes. So MMDS is not LOS, but LMDS is (though the LOS can be created artificially through the use of reflectors). A building wall is not a good reflector, since it creates a loss, which when combined with additional rain induced losses, deteriorates the quality of the link. b) The higher the frequency, the more rain has an effect, although at LMDS frequencies, rain only creates the need for either power or rate control. c) The higher the frequency, the smaller the size of cells. This is the key advantage of LMDS: frequencies can be reused in neighboring cells. And, yes, the available bandwidth at high frequencies is very large, which made LMDS possible. Best regards, Bernard Levy