RE: tlug: Wireless local loop technology

[David Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On 06-May-98 Karl-Max Wagner wrote:
>> My mother (upstate New York) is up to $30/month for the same service,
>> and that's that low only because her baseline average usage does not
>> include her period of using AOL.  In metro areas it can be very very
>> low because of network economies.  In suburban areas it's
>> substantially higher, and in rural areas it's looking to get
>> astronomical until the wireless revolution really kicks in.
> If you want to know what wireless can do these days, look at
> 
> http://www.oberland.net/homepages/palantir/
> 
> This stuff has the potential to do away with wires linking up
> subscribers altogehter - in big cities and rural areas alike.
> Tell me what you think.

In the UK there is a company that already provids wireless telephone
services:

        http://www.ionica.co.uk

David

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