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To: DenverTechie who wrote (1629)	7/21/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 12823

DenverTechie, Thanks for the response and I couldn't agree with you more when you said the Wireless Local Loop makes a lot of sense for the areas of the world that are not wired. My interest has led me to a company called Interdigital Communications (IDC ) and the strategic alliance they have formed with Siemens/Samsung and now Alcatel. The consortium demonstrated their B-CDMA product at Cebit 98 and are now putting up trials systems. They claim they can do voice , video and data at ISDN speed for Internet service. While most companies have their sights on improving the infrastructures such as we have in the USA the consortium is looking at the masses that have never made a phone call. First offering will be a fixed WLL and then later neighborhood roaming and eventually full roaming . Samsung is building a trial system in Chonqging China and Interdigital will start a trial system this fall in Iowa for Pioneer holdings who is partially owned by MCI. I found DanS's comment " We are, however, affected by line-of-sight. You must be in line-of-sight to our transmission tower. (70-90% of Portland is in line-of-sight to our tower.), very interesting too. A small company that has yet to have it's IPO named Worldwide Wireless has the same problem with line of sight only to a much greater extent and has said they will use Interdigital's B-CDMA to afford umbrella coverage to reach more of their customers as well as provide more channels . Later plans call for Internet and voice . Regards Jim

To: DenverTechie who wrote (1629)	7/21/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

First, wireless local loop makes a lot of sense. Fixed wireless, MMDS, LMDS and PCS are all cost effective (lately) solutions that do not require tremendous infrastructure investments compared to copper or coax and can be built relatively quickly. Jim Lurgio, Just for your information, regarding the wireless local loop (WLL) PCS solution. This is exactly what a company called, "Qualcomm(Symbol:QCOM)" is involved with (among it's primary business, CDMA technology). They want to supply phone service infrastructure, via WLL, for developing nations. It's an interesting company, although complicated. MikeM(From Florida) PS I just read your post and see you know about CDMA. So probably you know about the perplexing Qualcomm. But I'll leave this post for others that may not have heard of QCOM.