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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (1664)	3/20/1998 7:57:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Re: Antenna Site Rental You said: [Nynex] unlikely to be eager to rent their property to a competitor that would offer CLEC services. However, building owners in NY would probably be more open minded. But then you have the problem of dealing with legions of individual building owners. An intimidating logistic problem. With the telephone poles you deal with one counterparty. God bless, PX

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (1664)	3/20/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: wonk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Dr Levy: While reflectors have been used for years, I doubt that they will be used in any quantity. Its not worth the headache. To my knowledge, the FCC no longer issues authorizations in point-to-point services for periscopes and reflectors (existing links are grandfathered). This is due to splatter which tremendously complicates frequency coordination. Even in a service such as this, reflectors will complicate interference control. Also, as you mentioned, any misalignment (reflection coeffecient) is going to seriously impact the fade margin of the link. From the perspective of the operator, how do you handle these problems. Lets say you have a potential customer who is not LOS. With a reflector you can get him reliable service, but the fade margin is reduced by half. You therefore know that in a signifcant rainstorm his service will go out even though his next door neighbor's service (who for the purposes of this example does have LOS) stays on. Do you sell the service to this customer? IMHO, I don't think that reflectors are practical.