MCI Worldcom exec touts DSL service
By Tim Clark
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
November 19, 1998, 12:20 a.m. ET
LAS VEGAS--MCI Worldcom vice chairman John Sidgmore spiced up
his routinely perky keynote speech with a bit of news sure to cheer
Net users frustrated by slow connections--the company is beginning
a nationwide rollout of its fast DSL Internet access service.
"We have to make everything very much faster," said Sidgmore, who is also chairman
of MCI Worldcom's ISP subsidiary UUNet, today at Comdex. "Speed is going to
count a lot."
"We think the technology with the near-term potential is DSL (digital subscriber line).
It's always had potential, but it's been elusive in deployment," he said, in announcing a
national rollout of the service. (See related story.) |
