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To: Darren DeNunzio who wrote (3959)	5/31/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Darren, those are some interesting views. Nothing personal, but you sometimes omit attributions when citing other sources in your posts, which makes them sometimes difficult to reply to. Please clarify, if you will, if those views were yours alone, or someone else's you were quoting, so that I know where to send my rebuttal. For example, "[fiber] at $250,000 per mile to install..." Unless you are referring to pulling fiber on the moon, or over the Rockies exclusively, I know that that couldn't be your error. So whose was it? The benchmark used today is closer to between 40k and 85k, 100 on the outside when doing massive amounts of entrenchment and conduit placements. On the lighter side, I wasn't born with a copper spoon in my mouth, if I'm one of the "those of you's" you were referring to. By no means. I was born, however, with a 15 meter rotary beam antenna in my mouth, a Morse key strapped to my belt, an ARRL Hand Book strapped on my waist, and stranded guy wires hanging from my shoulders. I was all the talk of the hospital at the time, as you could imagine. Oh, and yes, I also had some TVI filters in my diaper utility pockets to assuage my neighbors with, when Jack Parr started coming if funny. Actually, to a greater extent, it was to please my parents, since I was never one for neighborhood politics, at the time. Just an FYI. And all in good fun, of course... Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: Darren DeNunzio who wrote (3959)	5/31/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Darren, "The only solution that will be economically viable is wireless broadband access (WBA) extensions from existing high-speed fiber rings." Hmm... Where have I heard that before? Now I remember. I've been making a hypothetical case for this here in the last mile on and off for about six months. But no such model exists yet to support it. However, in a way you do make a good case for fiber... and if the last 100 to 300 meters just happens to be coax or STP, or wireless for that matter, the end will probably be the same. None of them, however, will ever match the bandwidth potential, unobstructed and dedicated, of silica derivatives (wavelengths) directly into the home. If wireless is more economical and the tradeoffs are not severe, then so be it. Show me your radiated lobes, and I'll show you my singlemode photons. Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: Darren DeNunzio who wrote (3959)	5/31/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Herc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

I wonder if your assessment of the future of wireless broadband technology bodes well for the publicly traded tower companies--AMT, BIGT, TWRS, WTW. These companies buy telecom towers and then rent out the space. I have only seen one of these towers, and it belonged to AMT. It was in a swamp south of Pecan Island, LA. Look that one up on the map. That sucker was festooned with antennae and dishes. It looked like a Christmas tree in a trailer house! Also I read that Petrocomm, which services the offshore oil industry, is laying fiber optic cables between the offshore oil rigs. It is coming to that!