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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Guth who wrote (32792)	10/4/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33268

Re: Dialup vs. Broadband I have to disagree with you there. Even though I've been using a cable modem for the past two years and would never go back, I still have to keep a dialup service as backup because cable just isn't reliable enough yet to serve as one's only ISP. It will also be many years before BB is sufficiently pervasive that it will account for even half of retail ISP accounts. The potential market for OnePhoneLine is thus certainly there. The tech support question is paramount, however. It's got to be simple enough that AOL, MSN, and other major ISPs could bundle this with their offerings at little or no additional tech support costs. It's also clear that RACE would be crazy to try to roll out a new national ISP at this late date--talk about cutthroat markets needing deep pockets. My assumption is that OnePhoneLine.net will serve only as a field test for the technology and that RACE will use it to try to sell the concept to other ISPs. Obviously if they can do that then they may finally have found a real market for BT since it's pretty clear that the original target corporate market is still having trouble getting off the ground 32 months after BT was "launched".

To: Guth who wrote (32792)	10/5/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

Dale - we all wanted to see this type of service offered in the beginning but it just wasn't economically feasible to do what with the client cards and such. The software client hadn't been perfected yet and the Pentiums at that time weren't powerful enough to handle the necessary processing without slowing your entire PC down to a crawl. They've obviously got the software client up and running and I also think they've done a lot on the server end of things too. BB rapidly emerging? Those analysts are still sticking to their revised 5% deployment by the year 2001 while BT is, as always, "plug and play" over a regular phone line.