From:      J. Andrew Hollamon <hollamon@gas.uug.arizona.edu>
To:        A16.A16(rm-8653)
Date:      7/23/95 6:03am
Subject:   Re: RM-8563 "Public Access Wireless Band"


                                   Before the
                        FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C.  20554

In the Matter of                                       )
                                                       )
Allocation of Spectrum in the 5 GHz Band               )  
RM-8653
To Establish a Wireless Component of the               )
National Information Infrastructure                    )


To whom it may concern,

     The idea being proposed here is essentially a good one, in
line  with the ideals of free and easy speech, as well as the
notion of cheap  and easy data transfer through wireless means.  

     It would be nice, some time in the near future, if everyone
would  have their own personal data pad with cheap, easy access
to home, school,  and other data sources at all times.  In
addition it would give people  another option of
telecommunications, whereas currently you are stuck  with
whatever local service happens to provide in your area.  There
are  far too many cases where the quality of service is simply
atrocious.   This includes poor connections that can disrupt and
corrupt data  transfers.  However, all too often nothing is done,
because people simply  have no choice, unless they want to use
highly expensive cellular or  packet radio transfer.  This
proposal, at least in a local scope (10-50  miles are the
estimates I have heard) gives people an option, whether it  be
for voice, data, fax, etc.  It offers competition in an industry
that  is almost completely monopolized locally.

     Finally, the very concept is a sound one, in line with a
society  that claims free speech and unregulated dissemination of
information.   With telecommunications becoming such a prominent
technology, and not far  off a computer in every home, it is
proper that there be some sort of  open, public arena that do not
incur minute by minute costs.  It is also  very necessary.  If
the real information age is going to become a part of  every
average Joe's life, he/she needs easy, cheap, quality access to 
data sources.  And he/she will need to be able to access these
simply and  without incurring outrageous costs from a remote
location.

     This proposal offers that opportunity.  This "nil" band
could  become that cheap and easy telecom option.  But allocating
the spectrum  to large corporations will only make it more costly
and more difficult  for remote telecommunications to be a regular
part of everybody's life.



Thank you,

J. Andrew Hollamon