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To: g.w. barnard who wrote (28324)	11/5/1997 10:05:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[tidbits] excerpted from: Information Society Trends Issue number: 74 (13.10.1997 - 3.11.1997) ispo.cec.be mark ---- The national Belgian telecoms operator Belgacom said it would launch next Summer a high-speed Internet access service, Turbo Line, based on ADSL, a technology that allows for the high-speed transmission of digitised data over regular phone lines --- Oftel, the UK telecoms watchdog, has approved plans by the leading UK telecoms operator BT to provide all of Britain's 32,000 schools with high-speed digital access to the Internet by the year 2000. At present, only 6,000 schools have access to the Internet. As for the UK government, it has pledged to invest 140 million Ecu in updating computers and software in UK schools as part of its plans to establish by 2002 the National Grid for Learning, a nation-wide network connecting all schools, universities and libraries, and providing teaching material and teacher aid. ---- The Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada has launched a high-speed Internet access service based on ADSL, a technology that allows for the high-speed transmission of digitised data over regular phone lines, in the Ottawa/Hull and Quebec City areas. The service has been made available to corporations and Internet service providers, which can then offer ADSL-based services to residential users. The geographical coverage of the service is to be expanded in the course of 1998. ---- The US regional telecoms operator US West has unveiled plans to establish its telecoms arm US West Communications Group and its cable TV arm US West Media Group, to be renamed MediaOne, as two separate companies. US West, which provides local phone services in 14 US states, would be likely to become an easy target at a time of giant US telecoms ventures. As for MediaOne, it would keep US West's large minority stake in the US cable giant Time Warner. The move reflects US West's failure to successfully pursue a simultaneous expansion in the two market segments. The question of which company would inherit US West's large debt resulting from its cable network expansion has not yet been clarified. ---- The US computer manufacturer Texas Instruments has unveiled a new fast microprocessor, the C67x, that would offer 10 times more processing power than the fastest chip currently on the market for the same price. The new chip could be used in an array of advanced and new products ranging from tri-dimentional graphics to powerful telescopes, high-resolution medical imaging, fingerprint reading or intelligent airbags. ----------------------------------------- European Commission, Directorate General XIII, Advisor's Team. Supervisor: Detlef Eckert. Chief editor: Denis Baresch. Editorial committee: Gerard Carat, Christian Micas. The contents of "IS Trends" are based on publicly available information, in particular news articles and press releases, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Commission.

To: g.w. barnard who wrote (28324)	11/5/1997 10:09:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[Microsoft May Invest Up To $1 Billion In U S West Cable Operations] we see now why U.S. West breaks up the company it worked so hard to assemble: MSFT didn't want to invest in the telco part. MediaOne's holding are mainly in New England, i think... the old Continental Cablevision? Added pressure in BA/NYNEX territory. mark ---- NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. reportedly is nearing an agreement to invest as much as $1 billion in the cable-television operations of U S West. The move would advance Microsoft's efforts to turn the nation's cable television infrastructure into the primary high-speed access to Internet, Wednesday's New York Times reported. Microsoft is hoping to control the software that would run the set-top device used for getting online. The investment would get the software giant as much as 6.3% of the cable operations of U S West, a regional telephone carrier, the Times reported. Microsoft made a similar investment in June, paying $1 billion for an 11.5% stake in Comcast Corp., another major cable provider. The Times, quoting sources familiar with the talks, said the two sides hoped to finalize a deal by next month. Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft had been rumored to be close to a similar deal with Tele-Communications Inc. U S West announced late last month that it was spinning off its cable business into a new company, MediaOne, in order to concentrate on local and long distance telephone service. MediaOne, with more than five million customers in 19 states, would become the nation's third-largest cable company. MediaOne would also own U S West's 25% interest in the Time Warner Entertainment partnership that owns cable systems, the Warner Bros. film studio and the HBO pay-television service. It would also own U S West's international interests and interactive services.