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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16820)	10/20/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: bananawind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Maurice, If I read Clark's post and the cross posts from Yhoo correctly, WLL (cdmaOne version, of course) may have capacity advantage of 6X over mobile, not 2X Clark previously estimated. Riding on the back of a water buffalo is probably much closer to walking around your garage than to zipping around Espoo in a BMW, so WLL will be OK for the unwashed masses that Rajala wants to protect. Raj did not know the cost savings were that great because he was talking about GSM based WLL, which does not have these metrics -- duh yup. Don't know if we will have to get our engineers in Bangalore, but we can probably find a few out of work patent lawyers in Stockholm in the near future - they're not very good though, so we may not want them. Regards, Jim

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16820)	10/21/1998 6:58:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

RE: Rockbreakers There are probably no industries in which the marginal rates of substitution of capital for labor are higher than ditchdigging and roadmaking, thus a small investment in a ditcher or dozer displaces a huge number of weak, ill-educated, and badly paid laborers in either industry. I was astounded 25 years ago to see the biggest, toughest equipment of the time being used to plow the fields and build roads in northeast Thailand while millions of people (fully capable of doing the work by hand) were unemployed in the dry season. I (along with many others) reported to the World Bank that there were enormous opportunities to divert labor into industry and that the educational system needed serious upgrading in business and technical occupations to permit economic growth to occur. No one thought it would be a good idea to replace the road and farm machinery with human sweat and toil.