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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (428)	9/17/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: DenverTechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 847

Ken - the Motorola cablephone deployment in Australia has been known in the US cable industry for several years now. It was part of the Optus network build back then. Couple things to note regarding it: 1. Australia is not known for its world class phone service. Quality of service, reliability, voice quality is not on a par with US standards by any means. The Motorola cablephone system was an improvement to the status quo. But ANY system they chose would have been an improvement over existing service. 2. When the Motorola "Cablecomm" system was placed in labs in the US for side by side testing and comparisons with competing systems from Tellabs, Arris Interactive, ADC, etc. it fared poorly. Came in dead last in one cable company's testing, about middle of the pack in another. 3. It is extremely expensive in its circuit switched form, and requires very high levels of circuit concentration to approach any level of economic viability. More concentration, really, than a sane telephony network operator would ever consider adopting. On the next topic, I'm sure the CEO of Motorola is a fine person and means well regarding this merger. But the fact is that integrating the headend equipment of Motorola with the headend equipment of GIC is not a trivial matter. An appropriate analogy would be if I told you Boeing had bought Airbus and they were going to integrate the cockpit design from Airbus into Boeing jets. Yes, they both have seats, they both have control panels, they both have altimeters and throttles. But that's about as much as they have in common. The devil is in the details and there's not much in common between Motorola's headend designs and General Instrument's.