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To: A. Reader who wrote (17691)	1/11/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Respond to of 21342

FREE DSL --Internet Trailblazer iNYC To Revolutionize Web Access With Launch of FDSL -Free DSL- Unprecedented New Program Brings True Democracy to the Internet biz.yahoo.com Tuesday January 11, 11:35 am Eastern Time Company Press Release NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 11, 2000-- Steven A. Bruno, co-founder of New York based iNYC, announced today the launch of the company's FDSL (Free DSL) Program, the first advertising subsidized DSL service to provide fast, ''always on'' internet access over regular phone lines in the customer's home. Orders for iNYC's FDSL are already being taken over the company's website at www.inyc.com. ''The amount of time the average user spends waiting for connections to the Internet to be established and then waiting for websites to download, combined with the prohibitive cost of faster methods of connecting are the two biggest obstacles preventing the Internet from becoming the true universal platform for all information, communication, and entertainment,'' Bruno said. ''iNYC's FDSL will change that by making it possible for anyone with a computer to have a high-speed connection to the Web for little or no cost. Until now, DSL and other high-speed connections were available only to businesses or those who could afford it. We're going to put a DSL connection in thousands of homes, making the entire Internet more accessible to more people than ever before,'' he said. iNYC's FDSL is made possible through support from advertisers and a strategic partnership with Internet Solution Partners, Inc., developer of the Conocer intelligence database. Subscribers to the service will have an interactive banner visible on their screen whenever they are connected to the service. The banner will enable the subscriber to earn credits towards their service by interacting with the advertisers while they are on line, making the service either very low cost or totally free. ''We are offering today the kind of service other Internet service providers are only dreaming about,'' said iNYC's Bruno. ''What's more, iNYC's FDSL service will meet the same standards for quality and reliability that has made iNYC an industry leader,'' he said. iNYC is currently taking orders for FDSL nationwide, with actual installations to begin in the eastern states on March 15th. For more information on iNYC and FDSL, call 1-877-469-2123 or 1-718-677-4111, or visit WWW.iNYC.com. Free if you can get it, Michael

To: A. Reader who wrote (17691)	4/14/2003 3:38:51 PM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 21342

Westell boosts its modem capacity Andrew Corp. adds to healthy telecom signals By Jon Van Tribune staff reporter Published April 11, 2003 Showing signs of health in the ailing telecom sector, Westell Technologies Inc. said Thursday it has boosted its high-speed modem manufacturing capacity by 45 percent. Due to increasing consumer demand for high-speed Internet connections, Westell--which provides digital subscriber line modems to major phone carriers--redesigned its products and reconfigured its facility to boost capacity, said Van Cullens, Westell's chief executive. "Some of our new capacity is contingency," he said. "As we look out we see escalating forecasts for DSL. We want to reassure existing and prospective customers that capacity is no issue for us." But those factory-floor improvements will not immediately lead to new jobs at the Aurora-based company, Cullens said, because much of the work will be handled through automation. "We can do a lot more with the same staffing," he said. Still, he added, the expansion may lead to more hiring in the future. That would run against a trend in an industry where layoffs have been common and are not over. Tellabs Inc., the Naperville telecom equipment maker, said last month it will announce another round of cutbacks soon in an effort to keep capacity in line with demand. With the telecom sector entering the third year of a deep slump following the tech stock collapse, there are opportunities for a company seeking to expand, Cullens said. "There is a lot of equipment on the market right now at very attractive prices," he said. "A lot of it was acquired by outsourcers in the late 1990s when they were building capacity to a peak, and now it's up for sale. That means that prices for new equipment are also depressed, and we're out there looking for good deals." There was another bright spot in the local telecom scene Thursday as Andrew Corp., the Orland Park maker of wireless infrastructure equipment, closed a $828 million deal with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply radio frequency power amplifiers. That reconfirmed a previous deal between Lucent and Celiant Corp., which Andrew acquired last year. The contract had been up for renegotiation and in the current climate the fact that it was renewed without a reduction is something of a victory for Andrew. However, the contract will not add much to the firm's bottom line, said one analyst, because there is not much profit margin in that business these days. "There's no recovery yet in the wireless infrastructure segment," said Albert Lin, a San Francisco-based analyst with American Technology Research. "To win this business, Andrew had to sacrifice on price. It's not making any money on it, but it's strategic growth because the firm wants to get a critical mass established." Lin said that Westell's situation right now is more enviable because large telecom carriers like Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communication Inc. are moving to roll out DSL now that cable-TV carriers have demonstrated consumer demand for high-speed Internet access. "The incumbent phone companies are now playing catch-up with cable operators," said Lin. "Their overall capital expenditures may still be low, but they're shifting resources to DSL." Steven Titch, a Chicago-based online telecom analyst, said that DSL started to escalate late last year in Europe and Asia. While North America is behind the rest of the world, it is also on course to grow DSL, he said. "The phone companies, always cautious, have seen the demand for broadband demonstrated by cable-TV operators," he said.