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To: Boplicity who wrote (15329)	9/16/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Ron Dior	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

U S West Cuts Price of Fast Internet Access to $19.95 Denver, Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U S West Inc., which provides local telephone service in 14 western U.S. states, said it's dropping the price of high-speed Internet access by a third to attract customers who now use slower connections. The new service, MegaBit Select, costs $19.95 a month. It uses Digital Subscriber Line technology that boosts the capacity of ordinary phone lines to provide online access about five to 10 times faster than conventional modems. Denver-based U S West has been the most aggressive local phone company in offering high-speed Internet access, signing up 70,000 customers, or 40 percent of U.S. DSL users. The company is moving to counter the threat of cable modems, which promise even faster Internet access, as well as unprecedented competition in its local-phone business. MegaBit Select is available in almost all of the 40 cities where U S West already offers DSL, including Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and Portland, Oregon. Customers can use the service for a maximum of two hours at a time. In May, U S West cut the price for its cheapest DSL service that offers unlimited use to $29.95 from $40. The new service still requires subscription to an Internet access service, such as U S West.net for $17.95, making the price of the package $37.90 a month. Cable companies charge about $40 a month for data services, including Internet access through Excite At Home Corp. or Road Runner, which is owned by MediaOne Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and others. U S West shares today fell 1 1/16 to 55 5/16. The company is combining with Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. in a $45.2 billion transaction. Qwest fell 1 1/4 to 28 3/4. Sep/15/1999 16:41 For more stories from Bloomberg News, click here. Ron Dior

To: Boplicity who wrote (15329)	9/16/1999 12:01:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

This article is confused. You should see that as soon as an author makes a statement asserting that: equipment and to a fact of nature: Unlike copper, glass doesn't rust. Copper rusts? So much for the Bronze Age. It devolved into the Iron Age. As for the validity of this quote: "For truly broadband applications, the real battle will be between fiber and wireless," says Stanzione, who heads Lucent's famed Bell Labs. Anytime this expert would like to debate that claim, I'd love to accommodate him. The only possible wireless competition could come from a wireless that is not of a type currently available. An example is the pulse mode of Time Domain. All other wireless has hopeless LOS limitations. It is in the nature of the coupling of em and matter. Matter vibrates when em hits it in the usual transmission frequencies so that em coherence is scattered. There are schemes by which ubiquity of reception and transmission finds a way to bend a straight line into a curve, but these solutions have overwhelming implementation and cost limitations. There is hope in the 22nd century though: neutrino waves. But competition for waveguides from free waves? Bet me Jack.