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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crotty who wrote (10504)	12/10/1997 10:31:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Telecommunications powers? Crotty says about his ISP, "My ISP will not support x2, however they admire usrx's products. Great pressure from telcoms to support kflex.... " I think your ISP is quoting the hoary old Rockwell/Ascend line -- "the telecommunications industry is firmly moving towards the open standards of K56Flex " -- which is just as much BS as saying that x2 is going to be the standard. On this discussion thread, we all know better. What's actually going to happen is that there will be a compromise standard, somewhere between the two, and everyone will upgrade, mostly for free. Crotty, I wonder if your ISP doesn't own a lot of existing equipment which can be traded in for K56 stuff. Probably they have Ascend or Livingston. The only solution is to get another ISP. In my area, many ISPs are offering both protocols. If you were here in "greater Chicagoland", I'd be happy to recommend enteract.com to you... thay are a top-rated regional ISP which offers both 56000 baud protocols, as well as ISDN. Probably, you can find another good ISP in your own area... one which won't raise the rate for the 56000 baud service like yours is doing. I'm not sure which town you're in (I looked at your current ISPs coverage area), but I found a number of possible providers using the x2 search engine. My biased opinion, of course. Dick

To: Crotty who wrote (10504)	12/10/1997 10:47:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22053

>>Great pressure from telcoms to support kflex That's crap. The telcos really couldn't care less which box the T1 terminates in. They don't know, and they don't care. >>We are a great admirer of US Robotics products and would prefer to work with them, but are disappointed at their attempt to virtually monopolize the 56K market. As opposed to Rockwell's attempt to do the same thing? USR had a competitive advantge (time to market), and they used it. That was their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. >>As a true standard seems to be a year away, it seemed best to commit to one technology rather than support none at all. In other words, we're running Ascend, or Bay, or Shiva, or Livingston boxes, so we're going to stay with them. That's a reasonable position - so why the hell don't the pus, er, whimps just say so? >>As we made clear in our announcement, the telecommunications industry is firmly moving towards the open standards of K56Flex, which is consistent with the open traditions of the Internet. Excuse me? What "telecommunications industry"? MCI? Sprint? At&T? Netcom? IBM? AOL? Compuserve? Those guys are the "telecommunications industry", at least insofar as consumer Internet access goes. And, they overwhelming run x2 based boxes.