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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (5053)	8/26/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

"..but your assumption that Europe lags the US may not be true." Bernard, Excellent point. I need to start to focus on details that explicitly state whether it's one-way or two-way HFC. Apparently Germany's Deutsche Telekom would need an estimated $2.5 billion to upgrade their cable plant to serve 17 million homes with two-way service. And I know I read somewhere that a recently purchased Parisian cable plant was strictly one way only (I would hate to think of the costs of upgrading it), but now I can't find that news source. Maybe it was just a small cableco in Paris that was strictly one-way. Also, if the competive landscape in Europe is like the US, there could potentially be tremendous spending for cable telephony. For some vague reason I keep thinking Tellabs is pushing Cablespan over there. But I could be wrong. I should look that up. MikeM(From Florida)