Ed,
From CAI's filing with the SEC Dec 30, 1997:
" While the Company awaits the outcome of the FCC's proposed
rulemaking, CAI has conducted commercial trials of its one-way Internet
access service in its New York, Rochester, NY and Boston markets. This
service is currently transmitting data at shared backbone speeds of 27 Mbps
downstream and utilizes a telephony return path. As of November 30, 1997,
the Company had approximately 200 participants in such trials.
In connection with the Company's Internet strategy, the Company has
engaged a national Internet consulting firm, Maloff Group International
("MGI"), and has appointed MGI's principal, Joel Maloff, as CAI's acting
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Internet Services. In
anticipation of being able to provide a two-way Internet access service,
the Company is currently negotiating reseller/agency agreements with
certain third parties, pursuant to which CAI would provide a two-way,
wireless Internet access service to such third parties' customers.
Definitive agreements with such third parties have not yet been finalized.
The Company has successfully demonstrated telephony and integrated
voice and data capabilities using its Boston digital system and in its New
York market. The demonstrations, which have been for testing purposes only,
have been operated at transmissions speeds equal to two times the
transmission speed of basic rate interface ISDN lines. The Company has no
plans to launch a telephony service on its own, and will only pursue this
service in conjunction with a strategic partner.
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