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To: Joe NYC who wrote (17909)	11/6/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 152472

Jozef: I will agree.... I also see no need to have a wireless connection to the local ISP. What I was saying was that the fixed office LAN may not be needed, you will still probably need a fixed link to the ISP. A WLAN solution does not have air-time penalties or costs, although cellular "bastardizations" for WLAN will need licensing and therefore someone will need to be paid. The point is, do we need wires anymore? I don't have cable, but I get digital TV (not satellite). My Notepad spends most of its time connected to the world by my mobile phone. As I wrote, wireline technology is not standing still, but 1 Gbps? That's more than a TV stream needs! Do we need it? I suppose when that comes we will. Who needed the Internet before and who remembers the post service?