To: Frank or anyone,
PacBell announced DSL service in the Northern California area.
Does anyone know that what type of xDSL are they deploying? San Jose Mercury news article (11/13/97) says that it has a download speed up to 1.5 Mbps, uploading speed of 384 kbps.
Price is $125 for installation, monthly charge is from $80 to $250 per month to Pac Bell and $95 per month to Concentric Network Corp. of Cupertino, CA, the only ISP that offering the service at this point.
It will cost up to $660 for the xDSL box equipment.
Bob
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biz.yahoo.com
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Wednesday November 12, 10:18 pm Eastern Time
PacBell to start fast Internet access trial
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Pacific Bell, a unit of SBC Communications Inc. [NYSE:SBC - news], is expected to announce Thursday a trial in Silicon Valley of a high-speed Internet access service which will compete with cable modem services, analysts said, .
Pacific Bell did not return calls seeking comment. But Frank Dzubeck, president of Communications Network Architects Inc., said that the company plans a trial in the San Francisco Bay Area of DSL service (digital subscriber line), which will offer customers faster Internet access services.
SBC, the parent company of Pacific Bell, is also expected to launch a similar trial in Dallas, Dzubeck said.
The service is similar to an announcement almost two weeks ago by US West Communications Inc. US West is starting a high speed DSL service, starting in the Phoenix area.
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