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To: Scott Moore who wrote (821)	6/17/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: WTC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3376

Scott, You are not from the Washington DC area, I presume, and I would even hazard a guess you haven't driven between Dulles Airport and DC in some time. The Dulles Access road is paralleled by a toll road now that is solid on both sides with corporate office buildings. Behind the office buildings, as you say, there are a slew of upper-demographic homes (almost all in new subdivisions, and probably ranging in price from $280k - $350k, with a few outliers.) Just east of the airport, there are significant retail centers as well. This does not seem like a market for wireless data that one would go out of their way to avoid. There are some street lights ... but not much else to hang a node transceiver on. The other issue is that Washington DC and the close Virginia and Maryland suburbs are served by Bell Atlantic. Just before you get to Dulles Airport, you cross the line into GTE service territory. That may complicate the wired access point deployment process.