Long Range Wireless Technology

The emergence of television funded by broadcasters, advertisers and consumers, fax and data terminals, leased line and private network infrastructures, cellular mobile telephony data and multiple telecommunications operators over the past sixty years has complicated the decisions of which services, operators and technologies should be subsidized in order to reach customers in high low density areas ? Is mobility an essential lifeline service, or does the widespread availability of mobile telephones lessen the obligations on wireline POTS to maintain service during emergencies or power failures ?

Deployment coverage, commercial viability and user acceptability will be determined progressively over the next few years, but there is no doubt that wherever and however it occurs, it will be far cheaper, quicker and less disruptive than an equivalent cablebased deployment. End users have significant cumulative investments in fixed network telephones, answering machines, fax machines, modems, PC hardware software, PBXs, key systems, muxes, routers, and other terminal equipment which they expect to work regardless of the local loop technology employed by their service provider.

Local Exchange Carriers LECs and CATV operators continuously struggle to understand the optimum combinations of hybrid fiber copper coax which can deliver the newer combinations of bandwidth and services demanded by tomorrows end users.

Meanwhile, the recent strengthening of ISDN, data and Internet access demand has injected an additional set of factors into the planning and deployment challenges of access network planners as they try to become more flexible and responsive in the face of tougher competition and newer technology choices. Even the Universal Service subscribers expect to operate the same fax, data and other advanced POTS services as their urban counterparts ? Why shouldnt business telecommunications users be Universal Service subsidized so that they can flourish in rural or high areas ?

The estimated to convert the party lines to exclusive service exceeds 3000 per subscriber, and this investment would do nothing to help improve the held order, ISDN or limited CATV and Cellular coverage in the area. The newer MMDS, LMDS, pointtomultipoint and satellite technologies on main line or second line growth and churn. lower frequencies and lower power levels than broadcast or broadband systems..