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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (7125)	6/1/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: 2-Way Satellite Wireless for Real? "TeleCrossing is ready now to compete with both cable modem and DSL. TeleCrossing broadband network is designed to serve Internet subscribers who are currently unserved or unlikely to be served by Cable systems or DSL. Cable systems cannot reach 35% of US households, meanwhile DSL cannot reach 66 millions of US households." Frank- I know this is somewhat mixing apples and oranges, but in response to your scoop posted by Dave Horne(excerpt above which is not even accurate), what do you make of the following out of DirectPC? Do either you or Dave know if it's for real? I have serious initial doubts about TeleCrossing's plans. But this DirectPC idea comes from a reputable company, Hughes Network Systems. At least I perceived them to be. I clipped the below from a website of which I can't recall the name. I went to the HNS website and sure enough, HNS did announce this project recently: hns.com And HSN did that deal with AOL already. Now I'm wondering if this is really going to be a credible alternative to HFC, xDSL, or xMDS? -MikeM(From Florida) _______________________ Hughes Taking DirecPC 2-Way Hughes Network Systems is hoping the addition of a satellite return path will invigorate its anemic DirecPC satellite Internet service. The current offering is expensive and kludgey, requiring the use of a dial-up modem for upstream communication and providing a maximum downstream burst speed of 400 Kbps. Hughes said it will activate a satellite return path in the fourth quarter that will increase upstream speeds to between 128 Kbps and 256 Kbps.