Guerilla ISPs

Peter Monta pmonta at qualcomm.com
Thu Jan 4 03:26:06 PST 1996


Thomas Edwards writes:

> [ microcellular nets ]
>
> But how can these things compete with @Home, which is promising 10 Mbps 
> in and 128 kbps out of homes with cable modems?  

I'm skeptical about cable modems---few cable providers have adequate
return paths, and everyone competes for the downlink bandwidth.
Broadcast is not the right architecture.

Any systems in actual operation?  How many users do they support?

Cheers,
Peter Monta   pmonta at qualcomm.com
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar







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