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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
RACE 340.45+0.6%Jan 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: BishopsChild who wrote (28117)2/22/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 33268
 
What's particularly troubling to me is how the unit is constantly brings up POTS as though that somehow spells success for BT. I really see that as the core lie which has been told about this company and I am concerned that more innocent victims will fall prey to that story. The reasons for BT's failure are crystal clear:

1. Proprietary hardware and software on both ends.
2. No new functionality over standard modems.*
3. Heavy competition.

It seems that every week there is yet another remote access product and by far the market appears to be concentrated around work-at-home users with ISDN connections. The johnny-come-lately entry of RACE is simply too little, too late and does little to address the inherent problems of items 1., 2. and 3. in the aforementioned enumeration. I see little hope for BT going forward and only a glimmer of hope for the company in general. Sorry if these observations are painful but you'll be thanking for them later.

...users can have three connections operating simultaneously--a fax call, a voice call and a data call, for example.

zdnet.com

* Note that I do not consider limited simultaneity at the cost of severely degraded performance for any given function to be new functionality.
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