Metricom Ricochet Service

• Wireless access to:

  • Internet/intranets
  • E-mail
  • Dial-up services

• Connects to laptop

• $30 per month flat rate

• Frequency hopping/spread spectrum unlicensed operation in 902-928 MHz band

• Competition is wireline modem

• Limited availability

  • SF Bay area, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
  • Several industrial and university campuses
  • Orange County in 1997

A Metricom Network Radio

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