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To: freeus who wrote (16177)	3/21/1997 1:28:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	of 18024

Thanks for the information. The following Email from our largest local provider is interesting regarding the attitude of the smaller ISP's who in time will be dead and replaced by the cable or RBOC unless they change their attitude. "Alan C. Marshall; al@ultranet.com; (508)229-8400x3015; W1CCE Director of Technology; UltraNet Communications Inc. The premier Internet Service Provider in New England The New 56K (X2) Modem Technology The new USR 56K modem specification is an attempt by USR to force their own structure upon the modem industry. There is a second structure proposed by Rockwell/Lucent Technologies. These and at least one other are competing technologies and are completely NON compatible. This means that chosing any single one of these will require an update when the industry finally agrees upon a standard. Because of this significant problem and the many thousands of telephone lines involved UltraNet will NOT be supporting any proprietary technology except for some very limited local testing with some vendors. UltraNet WILL be supporting the eventual standard when it becomes available. This is not expected to happen in the near future. It is likely to be a year or more before we see significant agreement among the vendors on a specific technology. We regret this attempt by the vendors to force any of the proprietary technologies upon the modem-user community. Please consider that for any extra monies you expend now you will eventually be required to "upgrade" to the standard. Most modem manufacturers will require more money for this upgrade. USR is notorious for this cost to the user; remember V.FC. Not many people were upgraded to V.34 for free! In short, don't waste your money on X2 technology until it carries an industry standard nominclature on it similar to V.34. All you will get for speed is the current standard eg. V.34+ which is 33.6K. Everyone should realize that at least ONE end of any 56K circuit MUST be connected to "Ma Bell" via a DIGITAL connection. It will NOT work with both ends on standard analog telephone lines. Most ISP's (including UltraNet) have mostly analog telephone lines. For 56K to work at all will require that these lines be "upgraded" by NYNEX or the dial-tone supplier to a digital line, a very expnesive proposition. None of this will be done quickly since it involves NYNEX to do the work. There is a very long lead for such changes to telephone service. I hope this has helped to clear the air on the claimed "56K" wonderful speeds. Alan C. Marshall, Director of Technology UltraNet Communications, Inc.

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