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Technology Stocks : ADSL, ISDN, and the future.
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To: Larry Holmes who wrote (132)11/9/1996 1:26:00 AM
From: dan pearson   of 198
 
>What is the performance upstream and downstream, ie, the data rates >in each direction?

downstream supposedly 1.5, upstream not sure of.

>Does unlimited access mean you don't pay addtional timec charges for >using the ADSL portion of the line?

no additional charges .... or so I'm told...I'll be checking in with them tommorrow.

>Does this also include full analog phone service, or is that charge >separate from this one?

I was hoping it would include this service too, but, alas, you still gotta pay for the regular line use, and any of those little extras you want on it like caller id etc.

>At $70/month, or $840/year, the cost of the equipment could be amortized fairlyquickly I would think.

They should do pretty good with this. I might too as I just tallied up the last year of my online charges for all the services I'm on and it averages almost $100/month....so this'll be great...only problem is I'll have to keep at least one of IBM Advantis or Compuserve so I can still get access when travelling.

>Sounds pretty interesting; I wonder how widespread the offering is?
>Larry

from what I was told today, we're the first telco in Canada to offer this. We have access here to cable access as well but I don't think it can come near this what with speed crawling once all the neighbors get onto their accounts, and the problem of security when you are basically broadcasting over cable past all other users' machines rather than ADSL where its a one to one connection.

...dkp...
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