Hi Art: I'v been picking the brain of my ISP guru, about new stuff coming out..he has an interest in keeping up with it..and he's sharp..but he don't mess with the stock market..he's not to hot on the xDSL stuff..what he said to watch was "wireless local loop", that will let him do an end run around the local telco, and give the subcribers speeds as fast as his T1 can go..it's all done by short range high freq. radio..he'l be testing some soon. BTW, BBN got even more work to do for AOL..like I said in earlyer post, don't overlook the AT&T connection to BBN, you can bet they have thier fingers in this somehow..and keep in mind telsave was , or is a reseller of AT&T L.D. like excel resells for MCI..exactly what the AT&T connection is I dion't know, but they are into this for some reason and being sort of slick about it. BBN would not be doing the work other wise, it seems that maybe they can build up the network..then if AOL defaults on paying..( very likley )..they can move in for a cheep price, juggle a few numbers..BBN gets to write off the bad dept,.. and gain a lot of tax breaks..in other words when AOL goes belly up..the build up gets two tax breaks, and AT&T gets controal..via a backdoor, or something like that..I think the plans for AOL going bankrupt..are in the fire and all deliberate, but will not happen untill when it pays them the most. To top that off it will cancel out the ability of AOL to pay off the many pending lawsuits. Jim
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