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To: Doug (Htfd,CT) who wrote (1700)	9/7/1998 9:48:00 AM
From: Peter Piper	Respond to of 2349

LMDS? Whoa, have you been sniffing LMDS aerosal? See what happened to CellularVision CVUS. Does this technology or MMDS really work? If so why are most of their stocks in the buck a share pile? Peter Piper (your electronic plumber)

To: Doug (Htfd,CT) who wrote (1700)	9/7/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2349

Doug, I see what you mean by: >>Bell South's decision may accelerate movement to CLEC's and LMDS access systems that provide high-speed bi-lateral Net access, allowing Net phone usage.<< What you are saying in essence is that the way to circumvent the clutches of the LEC's toll keeping role is to bypass them entirely. I made a similar statement in the VoI thread, only not to the extent that you would move to a different medium (although that would sound very attractive too, were it only feasible in many areas). My approach was slightly different in that I was suggesting the use of normal Internet access to an ISP whereby a virtual overlay would be created to support VoIP at Layer 3, but this would require a regimen of LEC-like services incorporated in the VoIP architecture which, of course, does not exist yet. From my VoIP Thread post # 1251 Message 5683608 Concerning BellSouth's position to maintain a hands off approach to PC-to-PC and PC-to-Phone VoIP services, [[FAC edit: the reasons for this do not stem from any form of altruism, rather, it is because these forms of calls are far more intractable and dogged, and enforcement and billing would be on someone's say so, rather than an audit trail being left behind. And oh yes, it fits in very nicely as a half-way compromise with the sentiment du jour concerning the government's hands-off policies and recommendations. I think that we are about to see SS7 come back here and bite the startups in the ass. What this might also do is accelerate work arounds to the SS7, through the use of alternative directory services schemes and termination strategies using TCP/IP sessions altogether, and may easily result in the ultimate backlash for the incumbents. What do you think? Any comments?]]