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To: Sector Investor who wrote (15805)	9/16/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Respond to of 42804

Interesting Broadband bits from Jesse berst's Anchor Desk BROADBAND GETS BIG BOOST Competition for your fast-access future is heating up. AT&T, US West and Motorola all announced initiatives to step up deployment in the U.S. The battle continues to be between cable modems and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL), a way to let ordinary phone lines carry high bandwidth. Cable modem. Telecommunications giant Motorola purchased General Instrument, which holds 90% of the world market in digital cable boxes. Click for more. DSL. AP reports US West will try to lure new high-speed Net subscribers by expanding its discount DSL service. Its DSL-lite features fast speed for less money, but requires a dial-up connection. All of the above. Hedging its bets, AT&T will make its cable Internet service available during the first half of next year, and will expand its DSL service into 100 new markets by the end of next year. Click for more.

To: Sector Investor who wrote (15805)	9/16/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

<< Just a double? <g> >> Well, I considered a triple but have to leave you some upside <g> The grand slam in the bottom of the ninth will have to wait until we see their shipment rate of Red-C in the 1st quarter, <vbg> again going back to your point that the last week of April, 2000, 1st quarter results and CC, may well tell the tale of bearing fruit....or some such mixed metaphor. BTW, are we confident that MRVC has the manufacturing capacity to meet this tremendous demand that is lurking in the fruit tree branches? (Forgive me, it's late for an old man.....) BP