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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (1834)	8/5/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Small Business To Drive LMDS Growth - Pioneer Consulting [How about we hear it from some of our wireless folks here. What do you think?] August 5, 1998 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., Newsbytes via NewsEdge Corporation : Local Multipoint Data Services (LMDS), a broadband wireless technology, will develop into a $6.5-billion market by 2007, according to research firm Pioneer Consulting. Since large businesses will mostly prefer fiber-optic systems, LMDS will appeal mainly to small to medium- sized businesses and home offices, said Roberta Woods, Pioneer's director of wireless market research. "Services that were once thought to be available only from fiber optic systems can now potentially be offered in markets where fiber is not likely to be deployed," said the Pioneer report, entitled "LMDS Buildout Strategies." While LMDS will not be exclusively a small-business technology, that will be its major market, at least in the United States. More than half of US LMDS revenues will be generated by companies with fewer than 10 employees, the report predicted. Pioneer said LMDS may have a broader market overseas, including wireless local-loop telephony, digital video service, and low-speed and high- speed data services. LMDS will not be a big winner in the residential market, partly because the technology needs line-of-sight communications and homes tend to be one or two stories and surrounded by trees that would block LMDS transmission, said the study. Commercial buildings are the bigger market, and Woods noted that 99 percent of commercial buildings in the US currently are not served by fiber. Among the vendors to watch in the emerging LMDS market are Stanford Telecommunications Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., Bosch Telecom, Inc., of Dallas, and Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent Technologies Inc., Woods told Newsbytes. All three of these firms plan to offer integrated systems covering the full gamut of LMDS technology, she noted. Northern Telecom Ltd. also acquired a significant position in the LMDS market with its acquisition of Broadband Networks Inc. last November. The table of contents and executive summary of the report is available on Pioneer's World Wide Web site at pioneerconsulting.com . The full report sells for $4,000. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com (19980804/Press Contact: Ken Marini, Pioneer Consulting, 617-441- 3900, e-mail ken@pioneerconsulting.com/WIRES TELECOM, BUSINESS/) <<Newsbytes -- 08-04-98>> [Copyright 1998, NewsBytes]