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To: wonk who wrote (3274)	3/31/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

You had aid to HW, "but PSI is also taking a significant risk using unlicensed spectrum. If they are wildy successful, they collapse their own system." Why should "wild success" overload Clearwire's system? "Consequently, the trick is to begin to migrate customers to licensed spectrum before the customer base gets too large." Why? A wildly successful load would overtax a licensed one too. "Once the sub base reaches a certain size, service quality will begin to degrade and the costs of the migration will outweigh any gains from the customer acquisition in the first place." As far as I understand Clearwire's technology which is direct sequence Spread Spectrum there is no limit to the number of base stations that can be networked and the base has a 25 mile limit. Each base supports 50 - 200 end users. According to the company this is the smallest "ton" in the business for what it does. The FCC remarks were garbled. The SI editor reminds me of the DOS editor. I can't figure out what I was trying to say either. "Specifically, there is none". None what? "If the arena remains business," What? Using SI editor and talking to someone won't work.

To: wonk who wrote (3274)	3/31/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Despite not having any technical understanding of the fine details I have always assumed that wireless wont ever be widely used for broadband internet simply because of the limitations of finite bandwidth. I know there are more variables than one can count, but could you give me an idea of what total bandwidth might be available to share among a given physical area? I'm basically trying to figure how many people would be sharing how much bandwidth of a given "wireless pipe". Just rough concepts is all I'm looking for. Eric