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To: Midtown eBoy who wrote (27145)	7/27/1999 3:23:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Midtown, re comments on DSL. there are at least 10X more potential users in the world currently for xDSL than for cable. to use cable, you got to lay cable. to use xDSL - the lines are already laid in Europe and elsewhere outside the US - you only chainlink the switches and add xDSL for copper lines. Why has the net pundits put such a mysterious bent over the xDSL vs. "cable" argument? How soon does WS expect "cable" lines to be laid in Europe over the existing infrastructure of the big three, Deutch, Italia, and France Telecom? Within the next year? Certainly not in the next three years will any significant amount of competing cable be laid internationally since the big three in Europe have a vested interest in seeing xDSL prove successful now. Are pundits concentrating solely on the US market? Hong Kong Telecom isn't laying addlt "cable" access anytime soon. They're trunking with copper. Maybe this view is too far ranged. Who is being baffoned here?