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To: brk who wrote (8796)	6/29/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

One-upping me, eh? Have to save my money for Hawaii.

To: brk who wrote (8796)	6/29/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: Technologyguy	Respond to of 28311

It's a relatively small number of areas that have multiple broadband offerings today, but that will increase rapidly over the next 24 months. Cable modem services incent the baby bells to make the investments necessary to offer DSL--it's either that or give up at the start and cede the home market to the cable companies.

To: brk who wrote (8796)	6/29/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Interesting in that my area offers DSL (USWest), but doesn't offer cable (TCI). That's true in many of the cities where USWest is the telco and TCI is the cableco. USWest got a jump on TCI. I've had DSL since October (after a long delay in installation), but TCI@home won't be available in my neighborhood until the end of the year. In Portland, where the judge made his open access ruling, users have DSL or nothing since cable modems won't be available anytime soon. It's interesting to see how the companies do compete. Once TCI started hooking up more neighborhoods, USWest lowered their DSL price to almost match @home. They claim the price drop happened for other reasons, but I don't buy it. The city in the USWest territory that seems to have the most advanced cable service is Phoenix which is served by Cox cable. That's also the place where USWest has rolled out its most advanced phone-line services which offer some sort of video signal along with DSL and voice. Competition seems to spur both sides of the pipe supply. GNET, however, can benefit from all of it. Charter is a relatively small cable company, so the direct cable-supplied links will be available only to a few folks, but the broadband content that they create for the internet should be something that any of us with a fast pipe can enjoy. I look forward to it. [And on that 21 inch monitor. It's worth it, but watch out. When I got one, I had to completely rearrange everything to fit the thing into my computer area.]