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To: greenspirit who wrote (14)	11/26/1997 7:51:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 272

Michael, re: In the next three years, I believe we will see the speed of the Internet increase 10 fold from it's present rediculously slow speed. This may be off topic for this thread (if anything is) but there was a very small article in today's WSJ (page B8) about a new technology from Ericsson scheduled for release 1Q '98. It would allow phone companies to sell modems to consumer for "between $100 to $200", access to the internet would be "nearly quadruple the average speed", the technology will use the existing phone line that can be SIMULTANIOUSLY used for regular phone calls, the internet connection would be always on, just flip a switch to go from internet to phone and back again. I don't know how much of this is hype and how much is true, but if this is real it is a technology that could increase internet usage. John