thegreen....I found your comments very interesting, and couldn't agree with you more. Proof of what you are saying is taking place in Atlanta as we speak. UltimateCom, a small company out of Denver, CO, has installed a transmitter on a Nations Bank tower in downtown Atlanta, and is offering small to medium companies broadband internet services over a radius of 30 miles. A well informed telecommunications expert suggested to me that with their business plan, they would only need a few hundred customers to become very profitable.
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March 11, 1998
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge Corporation -- UltimateCom of
Atlanta, LLC today announced the introduction of its high-speed wireless Internet
access services, becoming Atlanta's first provider of high-speed data
communication over FCC-licensed 2GHz band. This broad bandwidth service
enables businesses to receive data-intensive information at speeds faster than
wire-based Internet access technologies.
UltimateCom of Atlanta, LLC is a subsidiary of UltimateCom, LLC, a Colorado
company formed to provide high-speed wireless Internet access to the 40 largest
U.S. cities and selected international cities, with Atlanta being its first market.
UltimateCom of Atlanta provides high-speed, wireless, high-performance digital
communication across the "last mile" between wide area networks and local
businesses. This local loop, traditionally underserved by line-based providers
with high infrastructure costs, often leaves smaller companies without a viable
alternative to slower dial-up Internet access.
John H. Taylor, CEO of UltimateCom, LLC, says, "We are pleased to bring
this high-speed, affordable solution to Atlanta, where a recent study shows the
number of Web domains is surpassed only by San Francisco." A few other major
cities like New York, Boston, Denver, and Washington, D.C. are already using
this proven technology.
UltimateCom of Atlanta installs a complete wireless high-speed Internet
solution, where data travels from the city's highest transmission tower to a
customer site antenna directly to desktops. Among UltimateCom's first sites is
the Broadband Telecommunications Center (BTC) in the Georgia Center for
Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT), serving start-up high-
technology companies. Daniel Howard, Associate Director of the BTC, says,
"We've been researching broadband fixed wireless networks, and are excited
about the potential of this technology to provide Atlantans immediate access to
broadband data services. We're looking forward to working with UltimateCom to
advance the technology and the applications for broadband wireless data
networks."
"It's not only high-tech companies that benefit from improved Internet
performance," says Michael Anziano, UltimateCom's Vice President of
Operations, "it's an affordable technological solution for businesses where a
handful of employees are losing productivity waiting for slow or interrupted
downloads from the Internet." Through a strategic alliance with Ultimate
Information Solutions, LLC, UltimateCom of Atlanta, LLC also provides
access to the Internet andcustomized services to help businesses maximize
opportunities on the World Wide Web.
For a comparison of UltimateCom's Internet wireless access speed to phone
line technologies, Robert C. Mead, Jr., General Manager of UltimateCom of
Atlanta, LLC, points to the differences in time to download about 1,000 pages of
regular text (2.5 megabytes). He reports 30 minutes on dial-up; 10 minutes on
(128 Kbps) ISDN; and as little as 10 seconds on UltimateCom's wireless. "That's
flatout fast and could be as much as 100 times faster than what businesses use
now," Mead says. "And, of course, as the phone line speeds increase, so do their
costs."
During Taylor's 20-year career leading successful turnarounds and build-ups
in four companies, including divisions of Pitney Bowes Corporation and Mead
Corporation, he earned the reputation for attracting top performers.
"UltimateCom's management team," Taylor says, "brings extensive strategic and
tactical experience in cable television, wireless communications, telephony,
network technologies, digital security, and Internet services."
UltimateCom of Atlanta provides high-speed wireless Internet access and
Web support services to businesses within a 30 mile radius of Atlanta, enabling
them to improve their Internet operation, increasing access reliability and
employee productivity at an affordable price.
CONTACT: Abovo Marketing Group | Mimi Anderson, 404/459-9300, Ext. 205
E-mail: manderson@abovomarketing.com
Website: ultimatecom.com
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