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To: bananawind who wrote (16383)	10/13/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

from a technical point of view....buy WLL phones....Nothing really changes between the mobile and the WLL cases, except that you may need just a slight change in the phone number registry tables. Other than that, since there is no handoff, your spectrum efficiency goes up and you get like 2.5 times as many phones on a sector.

To: bananawind who wrote (16383)	10/13/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Neophyte here! Could someone please point me to an explanation of what <<combined Wireless Local Loop (WLL) limited mobility service targeted to the mass consumer market>> offers a user? Thanks. Floyd

To: bananawind who wrote (16383)	10/13/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Harvey Rosenkrantz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Jim, I have always felt that there was a potential undisclosed demand for domestic WLL. Think about building an office building where one doesn't need to pull wires every time the interior space people decide to play musical desks? How competitive can a wireless carrier be in a new housing development because they don't need to run wire service to each home? How much more productive can certain executives and professionals be if their phone is the same on their hip as at their desk? The interconnect fees that are charged for the "last mile" amount to billions of dollars for the long distance carriers. A carrier like Sprint can afford to subsidize the WLL local service to get the long distance without an interconnect fee.