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Technology Stocks : DELL: Facts, Stats, News and Analysis
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To: Sonki who wrote (223)11/25/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: jbn3  Read Replies (1) of 335
 
Dell bets on both sides in Net race (OCT 9, 98)

From Austin American-Statesman, Friday, October 9, page D1

austin360.com:80/biz/10oct/09/9sabew.htm

… Surveys indicate that the Internet is a key reason for about three-fourths of all PC sales. That includes first-time buyers as well as a growing number of PC veterans whose machines start to show their age once they begin browsing the World Wide Web.

Dell said that more than half the customers who go online via their cable company buy faster computers within a year.

Dell has signed agreements with companies that provide cable access as well as high-speed access over telephone lines using ADSL technology. asymmetrical digital subscriber lines use existing telephone lines to increase the speed of Internet access. By early next year, Austin residents have their own ringside seats for the battle between the two technologies.

Southwestern Bell is expected to begin offering ADSL to residential customers in the Austin area at the same time that Time Warner Cable, the region's primary cable provider, rolls out cable access to the Internet.

But Dell may be locked out of an Internet access pact with Time Warner Cable in its home turf. Known as Roadrunner, Time Warner's service this summer attracted a $212 million investment from Compaq Computer Corp Dell's chief rival for dominance in the PC industry. …(more)

This is a bit dated, but I don't see it posted, and it seems appropriate at the moment. -jbn3.
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