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To: Trumptown who wrote (8899)	7/1/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Exactly what I just posted. A tiny town in Colorado hasn't a prayer in getting DSL service anytime in the near future for reasons that I stated. And the "limited areas" I refer to with xDSL are densely populated cities. . . where it would only require a modest investment by the local carrier into the switching networks. . .to get a large base of customers. . . . As for Bell Atlantic's prediction. . . I highly doubt it will happen. The Infospeed service is more of a Beta rollout than a general one. And those communities may well have eight million households, but it will be a long long time before all eight million of a community will have access to DSL. As for their deploying the service in NYC and Boston this spring. . .again, I expect quite limited areas of service. . . you give them your phone number, then they tell you whether or not you can receive the DSL service. I expect similar "promises" by other local carriers. . .but again I have strong doubts that the DSL service at large will EVER account for more than about 20 percent of the broadband market. Wireless is likewise targeting dense areas. . . and has some really cool VERY high tech products that are not tied to those same twisted pair wires that have been used for what 50+ years? Check out Qualcomm, Motorola, Compaq, etc for some of the new wireless devices being planned. Rande Is