Update: Peru continues to perform at or above expectations. A recent, and unusual, rain event at the transmission tower - coupled with roof damage apparently caused by a crew painting the tower - briefly interrupted service over the New Year holiday. (Pitifully, a poster on the RB Board called this, "The tower falls down!" I find it amazing how easy it is for people to twist words and create misleading assumptions) With tremendous cooperation from Andrew Corporation and others, service was partially restored within hours and fully restored thereafter. Our partners at Digital Way indicate that despite some inconvenience caused by the disruption, none of our current or prospective customers were lost as a result.
The system that WLGS is building has, as a core feature, the element of redundancy. And while the operation in Peru has full redundancy for all foreseeable failures and interruptions, the event that occurred at our transmitter site was not one of the failures which had been foreseen. Steps have been taken to assure that any similar failure should not occur again. (Isn't that all that any investor can hope for but to know that steps are taken to overcome future problems? And COMMENDABLY to Mr. Haffer, there was absolutely no reason that they even had to let us know this! But the fact that they did speaks VOLUMES to me as an investor!)
The McDonalds/Compaq/Punto Amarillo/Digital Way pilot project is in place in the San Iaidro outlet of the global franchise restaurant and is functioning well. Brochures providing customers with contact information about securing our wireless broadband service are on prominent display of the location. According to our partners in Lima, it has become a common sight to see customers eating a hamburguesa with one hand and surfing the net with the other. (Hopefully, they have a plastic protector for the keyboard!) (I find it comforting to see that WLGS can both dramatize the new rollout of the McDonalds' test, and add humor to it at the same time!)
At the time of this update (January 11, 2001) Dana Miller, the Company's Vice President of Systems Expansion, is in Lima. He is working with the staff of the Digital Way office there to, among other things, assist them in increasing their installation capacity. As was mentioned earlier, Digital Way hopes to double its installation capacities during January.
Currently Digital Way has approximately 400 computers connected to its system with another 350 awaiting installation. (The above statements show me that WLGS is sincerely wanting to tell us exactly what is true. Posters such as pjm01 wanting to know just how this is going to get WLGS to $13.5 Million in revenue remain a clear indication to me that there are investors out there who clearly just DO NOT HAVE A VISION for the future of WLGS.)
