Longterm investing in AOL and other ISP is going to be seen as highly questionable:
Once Cable modems are built into computers, allowing cable and phone access to the internet, to be of equal cost, big money investing in ISP will be history.
Cable shall be King...........the stage is now being set:
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Consumer cable modems to be OK'd
By Jim Davis
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 3, 1999, 5:50 p.m. PT
Cable industry trade groups are set to announce test results that are akin to a stamp of approval for cable modem makers, representing a significant step toward wider deployment of high-speed Internet services.
The Cable Broadband Forum (CBF), an industry trade group advocating high-speed Net access over cable networks, will tomorrow unveil a list of cable modem makers whose equipment can "talk" to equipment made by rival manufacturers. Industry consortium CableLabs, which performed the testing, will also be on hand.
Cable companies have been anxiously awaiting standards-based modems, which will allow them to provide high-speed Internet access with lower service and equipment costs, presumably hastening its market acceptance. "Ultimately, this is first step towards retail distribution of cable modems," said Patti Reali, a telecommunications analyst with the Gartner Group consultancy.
But most consumers won't see anything on store shelves until around the third quarter of 1999, Reali estimated........ |
