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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP
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To: JMD who wrote (1374)4/29/1999 6:31:00 PM
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Mike:

As a complete coincidence, yesterday morning I called our friendly Bell Atlantic corporate accounts office to ask a very similar question - when will ADSL be available in our area? Having just read in that morning's New England section of the WSJ that Bell Atlantic was ready to start implementing several grades of ADSL for accounts in close proximity to their CO's, and our office being less than 50 feet from the CO, I thought it might be worth jumping on and trying it out.

In typical Bell Atlantic good-news/bad-news style I was told that our CO would be among the first to actually offer ADSL services and that we were in a very high priority area for implementation, BUT that they really had no idea of exactly when and no idea of expected pricing for the service. The conversation ended with the service rep telling me that I'd probably read about the rates and availability dates before the staff would be told about it by management. It's nice to know they're so on top of things. Although it's nice to see that they are apparently trying to implement a "dumb as a stone" concept, I don't think that's quite what GG had in mind.

I guess we shouldn't complain - it wasn't that many years ago that the local Bells wanted to put special surcharges on calls that used their precious voice/dialup systems for "that fax stuff" and "those damned data modems". Talk about being dragged kicking and screaming into reality.

Steve
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