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To: JayPC who wrote (8147)	3/27/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Andy	Respond to of 41369

To Chinmoy, Logistics, Tang and Vendit: Great discussion about wireless and the internet. You gentlemen are raising the bar on this thread. Thanks for letting ignorant people like me learn so much. (just smart enough to jump on a rocketship) Keep up the great posting. Thanks again, Andy Richter

To: JayPC who wrote (8147)	3/27/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Jay would you mind providing a link to the information you just posted to me? Many Thanks Vendit

To: JayPC who wrote (8147)	3/27/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: RMiethe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Negroponte (the famous "Negroponte shift") also said that Direct Broadcast Satellite would never get off the ground. I would not place too much in what he says. Last year Scientific American had a good article on the future of satellites, and it mentions Negroponte's mistakes. As for the upcoming "solar flares": no one knows what they will do. I have read reports saying that they may blow out the entire telecom infrastructure of the world, to they might do nothing. My point: satellite wireless for AOL will probably happen sometime in the future off the Skybridge system, for example, or maybe Teledesic. That's the easiest way for AOL to get into broadband in a lot of areas in the world, and broadband is what lets the internet become a medium similar to Television. I don't think AOL would buy Iridium, however. Iridium has only one billions minutes of user capacity per year-- that would not work for AOL at all. Besides, those minutes of usage cost somewhere like $5/minute.