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To: craig crawford who wrote (13024)	1/8/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: James Petersen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 45548

>>Otherwise they will need to cut prices to get customers to buy a modem with the old code when the new one is on the way.<< Naw...just raise the price of the new models.

To: craig crawford who wrote (13024)	1/8/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 45548

I tried that with my modem. Unfortunately USRX update wasn't ready or working properly so my "upgradeable to 56K" modem needed to be brought in to a store and swapped. I don't see what was upgradeable about that. Maybe they have fixed the problem by now. Craig, The modems made in early 1996 (prior to July) did not have software upgradeable DSPs. Sounds like that may be what you had even if you bought it much later. USRX was known to have a 90 day or longer inventory in the channel. Your point about buying a modem that needs to be upgraded off the shelf is well take. USRX sold the software upradeable modems for much less than the nex x2 modems when x2 became available. This cleared inventory without taking modems back off the shelves. I anticipate COMS will do the same when the standard is out. The reduce price for the modems already in the channel will be eaten by COMS. They will have to compensate the retailer. The total cost of this in the entire scheme is likely small but with the poor earnings recently, any more costs hurt even more. Glenn