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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bud Fox who wrote (1000)	1/20/1998 9:52:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

This should have some impact on ATHM's prospects: Three of the largest computer companies in the U.S. are teaming up with a telecommunications giant to make fast-speed modems widely available by Christmas, The New York Times reported. COMPAQ (Friday's close: 59-1/8), INTEL (Friday's close: 74-13/16) and MICROSOFT (Friday's close: 135-1/4) will announce the venture at a communications conference in Washington next week. They have met with the GTE (Friday's close: 51-1/8) and four or five Baby Bells to agree on technical standards. BELL ATLANTIC (Friday's close: 89-1/8) is said to be the only major regional phone company to opt out of the project. The new modems, which would run at speeds up to 30 times faster than existing popular models, would plug into normal telephone lines but remain connected to outside telephone lines at all times without the need to dial a service provider. (WSJ)