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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (34486)	10/25/1998 12:19:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

Skeet, re: ART. How does it differ (if at all) from Ricochet? Several of the new licensees under the 1996 telecom act are trying to establish radio/microwave telecom/internet - I call it "line of sight" because it needs to be bounced from fixed gadget to fixed gadget. Sorry, I am not an engineer, and although I have been trying to teach myself telecom engineering autodidactially, it is slow going. The concept that excites me is that of laptops with little antennae, which is the Ricochet concept. You have to be in the server area to pick up the signal. New companies (Teligent, e.g.) are trying to go for the "last mile", supplying via radio/microwave the hundreds of thousands of office buildings that don't have fiber optics, and because they are in urban "islands" where ripping up streets is prohibitively disruptive/expensive, won't have fiber optics any time soon. In the meantime, those of us in the suburbs look forward to satellite/cable/DSL internet. I wish I had a crystal ball to tell how it would all shake out, I think that is such an exciting area for future investment. If you have read this far, then FWIW one thing that may be relevant to your company and also to other posts in this thread today, one of the new telecoms, forgot who, got a bump (Friday?) when it actually floated a junk bond issue, I think I saw on CNBC/CNNFN, which supposedly gave all the other littles a bump, because they all need money to make the wheels go, and no one seems to want to buy stocks with negative $85 eps these days. Dunno why. Cartoon shot of tech CEO in the desert, obligatory cow skull in foreground, he is gasping, "Liquidity! Liquidity!" CobaltBlue