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To: gnuman who wrote (58325)	6/19/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Gene, re:"always be connected" Thanks for the great tutorial Your welcome - your complement is appreciated :) My Bellco is my ISP, and I get unlimited access Unfortunately the major services are running the opposite direction. Starting with AT&T they are backing off "unlimited" service - going to something like 150 hours plus $2 per hour over. Now IBM. My local Bellco just announce the same. Like banks raising fees they all seem to collude on price increases or service reductions. The phone companies are generally THE problem. Up to now, they have kept the "phone switch" model in there heads. They see modem traffic as burdensome and want to raise prices to pay for new phone switch capacity to carry it. More old stuff... What Otellini is trying to do is jar the telco industry into abandoning the phone switch model before they spoil the whole public data line business, and to get them busy building a data switch network. A proper data network can handle far greater traffic for equivalent capital $$$. Intel wants the telcos to accept and strive for the "constantly connected" model. You related this to the search for the next great killer app. I don't think this works here. The killer search is only one of a few Intel strategic themes. Otellini was on another track - that of identifying and attacking the bottlenecks to processor growth. Intel has a talent for complete solutions and an intolerance for lagging segments. This is the motivation behind its Rambus memory initiative, chipset development, plug n' play, and many other similar programs. Personally I applaud Intel's leadership. My wish is that they get dramatic and buy a local phone company. Intel could then roll out a model community with everybody constantly connected. This is the American way to send a message! Jeff

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