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To: TobagoJack who wrote (2026)	2/21/2001 7:40:22 PM
From: OWN STOCK	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Jay: Interesting that you have better access to broadband than we do over here. Lesson for why not to invest in heritage telecomms or cable: At work, we have DSL line going at 1/2 T1 speed for about $US19/mo...(so pretty fast and cheap, considering legacy T1 still about $US1000/mo)...but this is just luck of location near telephone office close to city center... At home, in the 'burbs, legacy cable and legacy telephone unable to give me any speed, so went to satellite (Hughes) for service. Works, but mucho delay (to geosynch and back)... Existing ground systems (cable, tel) are fully depreciated, and service providers can cut rates (for the lower bandwidth services) to limit ingress of modern technologies so effectively, they rarely try. Results in spotty / tiered services. Sprint has gone to point-to-point microwave (MMDS) to overcome the problem, and they may be my choice for the new office building we are moving to. That's the situation here in Silicon Valley USA. -Own

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