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To: Mitch Vine who wrote (3630)	5/11/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Mitch, To put your question into perspective... "Assuming that individuals will want higher and higher bandwidth to their homes, is it inevitable that they will need hard wires (metal fibre or whatever) to their homes rather than wireless. Let's say for example that everyone wants at least 1Mbit to their homes 10 years from now. I was under the impression that the available spectrum for wireless will make it very difficult to provide this." ...almost everyone, excepting perhaps those being fed by some bandwidth-limiting subcriber carrier schemes where distances dictate, already has 1 Mbit/sec 'potential' to their homes through the facility of their POTS line. DSL is perched at this time, ready to harness that potential into a reality, for those who elect to use it in areas where the ILECs and other SPs are making it available. So, your question is probably intended to point to much higher capacities, say discrete channels for individual use which rated at 100 MB/s or Gb/s capabilities, or beyond, which are yet beyond normal reach. Such as those which would facilitate streaming (or, more to the point, uncompressed and shotgun-like) video services unencumbered by congestion; ever more rapid downloads of multimedia; commercial strength business related capabilities for the telecommuter; and so on. Odd that you shouldn't be asking when fiber and/or wireless will become available for delivery into the home, instead you've asked about wireless, specifically. While your apparent pessimism about wireless has historic foundation, there are new wireless technologies set to emerge which will shatter some of the stereotypes that it has had up until now. Some, very shortly, I believe. I'm not a wireless maven, unfortunatley, despite my early toddler roots in Ham Radio (smile), although I hold out great hope for its ultimate hybrid utility in combination with fiber-based backbone systems. Upstream in this thread we've theorized this scenario, by envisioning fiber to a neighborhood curb node, for example, and being extended to the subcriber over the last 500'-to-1000' distance by highly reusable ultra-high frequencies, in a quasi-cellular manner. I would defer to others here, hopefully someone like Bernard Levy, SteveG., wireless wonk, and others who possess greater knowledge in this sector, to take a moment and catalog the emerging classes of wireless techs, and take my assumptions to their logical conclusion, explaining what those techs are, and when we may see them deployed. Anyone? I know we've been here numerous times before, almost ad nauseam to those who must recite, but it's always good for wirebound grunts like me and others here to get concise updates in this space. It keeps the soul in a humble state, lest we become absorbed entirely by the fantasies, and oft' times struggling realities, of fiber, exclusively. Regards, Frank Coluccio