[Compaq Readies Equipment For Speedier Online Linkages]
this might have potential..from today's wsj:
November 16, 1998
Compaq Readies Equipment For Speedier Online Linkages
By EVAN RAMSTAD
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Compaq Computer Corp. is expected to roll out Monday home-computer accessories that permit faster online connections via telephone and satellite.
Though Compaq has forged alliances and invested in some companies that are working to speed up online service, the announcement planned for Monday marks the first time it will sell products to consumers that achieve so-called broadband speeds, considerably faster than modems that are now common.
For its Presario-branded home personal computers priced above $1,500, Compaq will sell an optional modem that works with a new kind of telephone service called "digital subscriber line," or DSL. The modem permits a PC to receive data at as many as 1.5 million bits per second, compared with around 50,000 bits per second for existing modems. The new modem permits a PC to transmit data at a rate of about 384,000 bits per second.
For the new modem to work at such high speeds, telephone companies must offer DSL service and telephone wires must be free of signal interference. Compaq said it is counting on GTE Corp., whose Internet service is offered on Compaq's home PCs, to accelerate deployment of DSL service. Compaq, Houston, said it is also working with all the regional Bell companies and Sprint Corp. on DSL technology.....
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