[Teligent's New SmartWave DSL Offers Smaller Businesses a 'Step Up from Dial Up' Bigger Bandwidth at an Affordable Price]
VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999--Tired of telling the boss why she has to wait ten minutes to download that third-quarter sales forecast? Sick of making excuses for slow-as-molasses data rates? Ready to blast the hourglass icon into the company's permanent delete folder?
If the slow pace of your company's dial-up Internet connection is costing you time and money, it's time to step up from dial-up at a price that makes the transition easy for any small or mid-sized business. Beginning next month, Teligent is launching a new high-speed data service for cost-conscious customers - SmartWave (tm) DSL.
Using advanced "digital subscriber line" (DSL) electronics to enhance the copper circuits inside customer buildings, Teligent's new service will enable smaller businesses to take advantage of high-speed Internet access at prices starting at $149 a month. Initially, the service will be available in selected buildings in approximately one-third of Teligent's 28 markets, with other markets following later this summer and fall.
SmartWave(tm) DSL service will combine the advantages of DSL copper-enhancing technology inside the customer building with the benefits of Teligent's digital SmartWave(tm) fixed wireless networks outside the building. The net result: Teligent will reduce costs for businesses that don't demand "dedicated" broadband access every minute of the day, but want and need a reliable, two-way, high-speed connection whenever they do get on the Net.
"With SmartWave(tm) DSL, even the smallest businesses will be able to afford the bandwidth they need to seize opportunities offered by the Internet and the fast developing world of e-commerce," said Kirby G. "Buddy" Pickle, Teligent's President and Chief Operating Officer. "With our new prices, businesses just can't afford to sit on the sidelines of the Internet revolution."
Teligent will offer SmartWave(tm) DSL service with four bandwidth options, ranging from 150 kilobits per second - about three times the speed of the fastest dial-up connection - up to 1.5 megabits per second - or nearly 30 times dial-up speed.
Unlike less robust DSL services engineered for consumers, Teligent's "industrial strength" SmartWave(tm) DSL is fully symmetrical - that means that a customer can transmit data just as quickly as he or she can receive it. That "always-on," two-way speed is critical for a business that needs to communicate quickly and effortlessly with its customers and suppliers.
Because Teligent uses DSL technology only on inside wiring, it avoids many of the issues associated with traditional DSL technology deployed throughout local telephone networks spanning large metropolitan areas.
Unlike traditional DSL, Teligent SmartWave(tm) DSL will not be constrained by the local telephone company's antiquated copper networks. Because Teligent's service is independent of the local phone company, Teligent customers have no issues with phone company line quality, loop lengths, cross-talk, central office co-location or provisioning delays.
"Our customers will get 'DSL plus' at DSL prices," said Pickle. "And when they decide they want to move up to dedicated broadband access at speeds of up to 45 megabits per second, they can make that move seamlessly through Teligent - without going back to the incumbent local telephone company." |
