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To: ahhaha who wrote (10502)	6/5/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Pretty difficult to apply the same public constraints on land based wireless in that open access is the default nature of the medium That is of course true only if the bandwidth is set up to be allowed to be used by anyone all simultaneously. If anyone was allowed to string wire next to the MSO's wires the same would be true for cable. Eric

To: ahhaha who wrote (10502)	6/5/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

Yes, were it not for the regulators telling you what frequencies to use in what modality, etc. Wireless needs special discussion, though. It's one thing to talk about straight wireless (even from cell sites and community towers), and it's something else to talk about it in the context of hybrid fiber/wireless Internet Acess Service. To heck with TV, it's already a saturated medium in most cases, and does not portend relief for universal Internet provider access. What may be needed is the last mile utility I mentioned earlier that could satisfy multiple players. Pure fiber, or some radically different form of wireless, such as I'm proposing here. The utility could avoid many of the startup headaches associated with creating their own portal nonsense, and other forms of evanescent branding identifiers, and capitalize on carriage and freight, alone. In such a proposed HFW IAS scenario, as we've discussed before over in the Last Mile thread, wireless would only be used in the last 500 to 1,500 feet at relatively low power. This would allow extremely high speeds with considerable spectrum reuse. Again, this would take advantage of the much higher capacities of passive fiber to the neighborhood. In this way, wireless merely replaces the black cable into the living room or den. It wouldn't be one of those over the river and through the woods replacements for fiber, though. Simply a backyard replacement that would obviate capital construction costs and truck rolls with every signup. No one is doing this that I am aware of. And it still would not best the all fiber approach. For, purity is still lost, mon ami. I think I've said enough here already, to hold me a spell. Back to life. Regards, Frank Coluccio