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To: Dragonfly who wrote (2708)	4/23/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

What sort of speed does Metricom give you in Seattle? Doug

To: Dragonfly who wrote (2708)	4/23/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: Bernard Levy	Respond to of 10852

Dear Dragonfly: I think you are way off concerning terrestrial wireless costs. MCOM's costs are high, but costs for broadband wireless in the 24GHz, 28Ghz and 38Ghz bands using point to multipoint equipment are very low. A recent analyst report on WCII indicates that the infrastructure cost of P-MP per installed T1 line is as low as $200 per line. Note that i am talking about business users (one antenna on top of a building, several lines per building). I even think that LMDS for residential users will be competitive against x-DSL. An HP study bwfore they sold their LMDS business to LU was indicating a cost of $150 per home passed (you would need to add the cost of CPE, which would add easily another $500-$1000). Note also that the speeds achievable with broadband wireless are eye-popping (40Mb/sec downstream, 2Mb/sec upstream). Best regards, Bernard Levy