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To: Rainmaker who wrote (26681)10/29/1998 10:40:00 PM
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Rainmaker: Higher-Speed Internet Standard Is Approved

October 26, 1998

Even as Microsoft battles the U.S. government, it
can celebrate an incremental victory in the
international
arena.

Nine months ago, Microsoft, Compaq Computer and Intel
joined with the large local phone companies in an
effort to enable consumers to receive Internet data
over regular telephone lines at speeds much faster than
now possible.

Last week, the consortium achieved its initial goal:
winning preliminary approval of its technical standard
from the International Telecommunications Union, a U.N.
group. The technology is known as digital subscriber
line, or DSL. The version of DSL that won approval
promises to deliver 1.5 million bits of data to homes
every second.

Considering that it took the computing and
communications industries about two years to settle on
a universal standard for modems that deliver 56,000
bits a second, the industry consensus on DSL was quite
a quick step.

But the phone companies must continue to step lively if
they are to beat back the threat to their future posed
by cable modems. There may be half a million people
using cable modems for access to the Internet over
cable television systems, while only a fraction of that
number use DSL technology.

The new standard will allow consumers to install the
advanced modems without help from a technician. Many
cable modems require expert help for installation. The
consortium hopes to have the modems in stores by the
middle of next year, priced about $150.

Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
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