Two marginally useful points:
1. In Jan 1990 I worked on a startup called "Flying Packets" that was trying
to build a "picocell" 802.11 startup here in San Francisco. We didn't make
it, but lots of our ideas are being implemented now.
2. My friend Glenn has been following 802.11 rather closely. His comments on
the 802.11 voice-over-ip thing:
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Fleishman [mailto:glenn@glennf.com]
There are actually already Wi-Fi handsets! But they only work with a
proprietary system. Changing that shouldn't be a big deal. You only
need 64Kbps!
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Received on Fri Aug 10 22:58:29 2001