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To: Meathead who wrote (25113)	12/14/1997 10:07:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Here something (see below snipped article) that will happen a little sooner then the humanization of PC you posted about. Further more I just can't see people talking to their computers. Think of all the cubicles at the work place with people sitting in them and talking to their computers at the same time, it's too bizarre. <gggg> <<Broadband ADSL Services Will Bring Continuous, High-Speed Internet Access to The Mass Market, Enabling a New Constellation of Multimedia Services SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The multimedia future of the Internet and the continuing convergence of communications, information and entertainment will be enabled by broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services, according to Craig Mundie, senior vice president of Microsoft's consumer platforms division. ADSL is a modern technology that provides high-speed digital transmission over the 750 million ordinary phone lines crisscrossing the Earth at speeds more than 25 to 100 times faster than today's new 56.6 Kbps modems. Extensive international ADSL technical trials now are moving rapidly to worldwide market trials and initial service deployments throughout 1998. ''The world wants high-speed access to the Internet and more. It expects its PCs to become multi-function household and office appliances, providing new and faster services for communications, information and entertainment,'' said Mundie in his keynote presentation at the ADSL Forum Summit meeting in San Francisco last week. He told the audience of nearly 450 executives and professionals from the communications and computer industries that all future Microsoft Windows operating systems will incorporate support for ADSL technology. Mundie, who has been using ADSL in his home during the past year, added that the powerful advantage of the technology's ''always-on'' feature shouldn't be overshadowed by its broadband speed. ''It's just as important to be continuously connected as it is to be connected at high speeds. ... (Together both features) fundamentally change the way in which people perceive the Internet and the appliances connected to it.'' Mundie reported that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) was ramping up its ADSL trial with GTE during the next several weeks to include more than 1,000 homes and use of 6 Mbps ADSL. Microsoft is a member of the ADSL Forum, which is comprised of nearly 300 member companies representing all sectors of the world's computer and communications industries. Telephone company representatives speaking at the ADSL Forum Summit last week called ADSL deployments a ''strategic imperative'' as the most viable means of providing a host of new broadband services to consumers, telecommuters, branch offices and small businesses. ''Customers need ADSL, want it, use it and love it, and they are willing to pay for it,'' declared Phillip Skeba, Ameritech's Manager of Strategic Standardization Management. He said that later this month Ameritech (NYSE: AIT - news) will move from ADSL market trials to a limited commercial service launch, with general availability in 27 target markets slated for mid-1998. Flynn Nogueria, director of data services for GTE Communications Corp., said, ''I can't ever remember a new product being better positioned (for mass market penetration) .... My 81-year-old grandmother wants ADSL (fast access for her new WebTV).'' GTE recently announced limited commercial deployment of ADSL services within office buildings and apartment and condominium complexes. The carrier plans to convert its four ADSL trials to commercial service during the first quarter of 1998. Alan White, project manager with BellSouth's advanced networking division, reported that the carrier will deploy commercial ADSL services in its top six metropolitan area markets during the second quarter of 1998, with a total of 30 metro areas to be served by year-end. ''Customers want this service desperately,'' he added. Frank Nelson, director of DSL product management for Bell Atlantic (NYSE: BEL - news), said that his company will begin commercial deployment in mid-1998. SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC - news) also plans mid-year ADSL deployment, reported Mike Powell, the company's DSL marketing manager. Daniel Briere, President of TeleChoice, a leading telecommunications market research firm, predicted an ADSL ramp-up in 1998 with ''real mass orders'' coming during 1999. ''I'm a firm believer that ADSL is here to stay and is a logical way to get high bandwidth to residential and some business subscribers,'' he said. >> It was during the 1995/1996 time frame that I decided 1997 was going to be the year of xDSL, and DVD, and for them to drive PC sales, it didn't happen, now it looks like late 1998/1999. The point I am trying to get across is that fact that this pie in the ski stuff that is supposed to be driving PC sales in the future might take much longer then you think. Greg