[Ameritech]
Has this been posted yet?
If so, I apologize for the duplication.
I like the part about the customers loving it. :))
Pat
<<<CHICAGO, April 16 (Reuter) - Ameritech Corp <AIT.N> said Wednesday its trials of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) high-speed Internet access have been successful and it plans to widely launch service in the first half of 1998.
"By the end of the year we'll have a significant trial," W.
Patrick Campbell, executive vice president of corporate stategy and business development, said after the company's annual shareholder meeting.
"Full deployment and a market rollout will be at the end of the first quarter at best and much more realistically by the end of the second quarter," Campbell said.
Ameritech's ADSL service allows users to connect to the Internet at speeds ranging from 1.5 megabits per second to 4.0 over telephone lines. The fastest conventional computer modem on the market today can download information at speeds up to 56 kilobits per second.
"Customers love it," chairman and chief executive Richard Notebaert said of the trials. "They won't let us take it out of their homes."
Ameritech is a regional Bell company providing telephone, cellular, paging, security monitoring, cable TV and online services.
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