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To: Teddy who wrote (4790)	7/24/1999 6:18:00 AM
From: Gary R. Owens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

GTE ADSL gets faster, cheaper BRIAN QUINTON GTE Internetworking is adding a new product to its digital subscriber line menu, one aimed squarely at its high-speed cable competition. The new offering, GTE Bronze Plus, includes Internet access provided by GTE.net, the carrier's national Internet service provider with 520,000 paid customers in 50 states. For $49.95 a month, subscribers will get Internet access at downstream speeds of up to 768 kb/s and upstream of up to 128 kb/s. New subscribers can pay $99 for installation and a DSL modem; those who want to switch from GTE's current Bronze ADSL package, which offers 256-by-64 kb/s access for $60 a month, will pay a one-time $35 fee. The new service level targets residential and small office/home office (SOHO) or small business customers who want high speed—including first-time PC buyers. “We're addressing the increasing demand for higher bandwidth, not only among Internet-savvy users but among those who are casual and first-time Internet users as well,” says Lucy Huang, group product manager for ADSL with GTE's network services division. “The new service and new price are a definite appeal to the mass market.” It's also a shot across the bow to cable companies such as AT&T with closed networks. Consumers who already have Internet access from one of the 180 ISPs GTE is partnered with can stay connected to that provider but at Bronze Plus speeds for a bring-your-own price of $32.50 a month. “Consumers don't have to have GTE.net slammed down their throat like Road Runner,” says Huang, referring to the cable Internet service partly owned by Time Warner and MediaOne. GTE has offered to pay the court fees of the Broward County, Fla., agency that must defend its decision to open cable networks in that county from a lawsuit filed by Comcast Corp. GTE currently has DSL access multiplexers deployed in 508 central offices in 35 markets in 17 states, including California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, Indiana and North Carolina. The carrier hopes to bring that number up to 550 COs by the end of the year, Huang says, through deeper penetration of existing markets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions or comments, contact Web Editor Karen Murphy msblues@earthlink.net . Please report any problems with this site to: Webmaster@internettelephony.com. www.internettelephony.com Telephony ©1999 Intertec Publishing Corp., a PRIMEDIA company All Rights Reserved. internettelephony.com