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To: Kenneth E. De Paul who wrote (3788)	5/19/1999 9:16:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Ken, I think that Michael Armstrong and Co are aware of this. Or, at least they have been advised. We don't want to skew Mike's thoughts here with too many facts while he's still on a run. That's why we've seen their engineers making some rather aggressive projections concerning how they are going to remedy the situation. Three to five years out may not seem aggressive, but given the scope of this thing, it's a lightning strike. There are some stats available, but I don't think that they yield significant meaning yet. Shared domain networks will scale linearly from zero up through some percentage of utilization, and then suddenly go flat for the next couple of increments of traffic increases, and then begin their decline with added users pulling down incrementally larger content payload sizes. These dynamics aren't entirely what one would perceive to be the case, nor can the knee in the curve be easily predicted scientifically, much less intuitively, is what I'm saying. The answers to some of these questions can be found in the results of the stress tests which (one would hope) were taken during the initial and ongoing HFC trials. If those stress tests were performed with any foresight and diligence, very heavy continuous streams would have been included, along with those for "typical" flows with increasing usership. I don't know if the present anticipated loads were even anticipated then, though, so I really can't say for certain that the early trials even took them into account. Don't know. Anyone have the inside on these? By the way, and I need to insert this here... the last couple of posts of mine are predicated on the assumption that uptake levels will be achieved to make these predictions come true. There is no guarantee that that will happen. Early adopters aside, I know plenty of folks who are quite content right now with other modes of access, and competitive forms have yet to be unveiled. So the saving grace for HFC, two or three years out, may be its failure to become overly attractive. Hence, the same paradox as earlier cited, from another angle. Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: Kenneth E. De Paul who wrote (3788)	5/21/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: Darren DeNunzio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

VDMA....What it is said to be. That link from a previous message was correct, however, you must login here worldwide-wireless.com before they give you access. They even wanted my phone number, so I gave them Franks.... I am not going to post the entire page, here is the claim. "A few years ago, Wireless founder Michael Lynch foresaw that microprocessors' increasing power could soon enable the development of a communications chipset that could serve as a transceiver for its own message traffic even as it acts as a repeater for others' traffic, possibly eliminating the need for extensive signal repeater facilities. He also saw that such a powerful technology could, in corollary fashion, serve as the basis for other communications applications, such as in very high-speed Internet access services. Now, World Wide Wireless Communications is completing development of its "VDMA" - Virtual Division Multiple Access - communications chipsets, which, WWWC believes, can virtually eliminate the need for repeater infrastructure costs. WWWC's VDMA telephone handset is designed to serve as a mobile, low-power repeater site, even in "sleep" mode, and each such unit "in the field" facilitates and extends the local network by 10-20 miles. " They do not however say how this is accomplished, and to my knowledge, no patents have been applied for or approved. When you dig deeper you find this rather strange statement. " The Company is pleased to announce that by way of unanimous vote the Board of Directors has approved a change of name for the Company from Upland Properties, Inc. to World Wide Wireless Communications Inc. The Company has received confirmation from the State of Nevada and has initiated the process regarding the change in name and Trading Symbol and the issuance of a new CUSIP number. They are a Nevada corporation, but there offices are in Concord, CA Here is the last bit of my D.D. Although WWWC may be within months of first expressing its VDMA success in silicon, the commercial exploitation of the Company's voice communications technology may take a year or more to start producing financial results. Enough said, I hope no one has invested with the childrens college fund.