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To: Greg Thornton who wrote (20359)	2/6/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Ralph E. Daugherty	Read Replies (1) of 36349

From the Yahoo thread...... Better than our friends who write for USwest and some others!!!!! Subj: Seen posted in comp.dcom.xdsl By: SanDiEgho Date: Feb 3 1998 0:20 A.M PST Reply To: Msg. 1 by YahooFinance Valley Telephone Cooperative will offer a 700 kilobit high speed Internet access service effective February 17, 1998. The service called DSL700 will be offered at $36 per month for the local loop conditioning. Internet Access service through VistaNet, our ISP, will be offered at $30 per month. Valley Telephone serves the rural ranch country between San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Valley Telephone provides service in 17 Counties over 7,300 square miles to 5,300 customers or .7 customers to the square mile. One of the least dense telephone populations in the USA. Valley is the first small independent to offer a xdsl based service to it's customers. We have 140+ internet customers with 24 currently interested in the service. The service is available across all 17 exchanges we serve. We intend to provide the service to every customer no matter how remote. We trialed the Pair Gain EtherPhone, an HDSL product. However we are deploying Pair Gain's RADSL product. We are not offering a higher bit rate service because it would have delayed the rollout. We offer the service on the existing telephone line to reduce the rate we must charge and eliminating the need for a second line to the customer. Pair Gain is the only product we have found which could be economically deployed in a low density market. The ability to aggregate traffic and basic pricing made these numbers possible. The school that helped us trial our service has 85 computers working behind 1 DSL700 line. They say it serves their needs just fine. We charge the same for the line but $90 for the Internet service when more than 2 computers are connected. We have set the price as low as economically possible. We are eliminating the last mile bottleneck problems in this company. We feel telephone companies and copper cable pairs have taken some unfair criticism so we are out to prove some of it wrong. We will be glad to share our tariff with any other telephone company wanting to offer the service. We hope we have set the benchmark. Our home page is www.vsta.com Charles Gowder cgowder@vsta.com General Manager, Valley Telephone Cooperative 956-642-1124

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