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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:00:43 EST
- From: GHADSAL@AMERICAN.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Future of Wired vs Wireless Services
- Message-ID: <telecom12.918.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 918, Message 8 of 9
- Lines: 47
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- GREAT QUESTIONS !!!
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- I am eager to hear the views of those here!
-
- Guy's Opinion: I see wireless taking a sizable share of the entire
- "telecom" industry by the year 2000. Landlines are out; they're
- expensive, difficult to maintain, and carry less than wireless
- (promises) in relative terms.
-
- But don't fret for MaMa (RBOC's and AT&T) she'll be OK. The RBOC's
- (pronounced Reebocks like the shoes becuase there value is in image
- only -- aside from a *huge* asset base) are old but getting younger by
- the week. Most have plans or have taken action to split up into high
- specialize operating units thus bein g allowed to take advantage of
- the market and the laws (remeber MFJ prohibits them from doing a lot
- still). PacTel is a most recent example.
-
- I see the teleom industry in a growth stage that will not stop until
- the year 2100 or Judge Green tosses another *stupid* ruling out
- preventing the natural course of the market. Wireless is *definitely
- the market to be in for the next decade or two ... but watch out for
- *new* ideas and ways of "communication".
-
- These are my $.02, what are yours?
-
-
- Guy Hadsall Grad. Student in I.S. The American Univ. - Wash DC
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Well, if the growth stops in the year 2100 I won't
- be too concerned personally ... and since the world is scheduled to
- come to an end in July, 2126 (as per news reports about the comet
- scheduled to possibly hit Earth and knock us out of orbit sometime
- that month), I guess a quarter-century of little no growth in the
- telecom industry won't be a problem. :) But I do seriously wonder
- sometimes what the future holds. After all, who in 1800 could have
- imagined voice traveling over a piece of wire and being heard in the
- next room, let alone thousands of miles away? In 1900, who could have
- imagined the state of the art switches we have now? In 1980, who would
- have imagined the explosive growth of email, computer networks and
- cellular phones we have now? Now perhaps you, the reader, can tell us
- what telecom will be like in 2010 (to make it easy) or 2100 if you
- would really like a challenge. If I get enough replies, I will run
- them in a issue or two of the Digest to start the new year. PAT]
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