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To: ahhaha who wrote (1273)	1/24/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: Bob Zacks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

What will AT&T get the rights to? If I was AT&T I would want the rights to all telephony and video telephone provided through @Home. A set top box coming out this fall that will handle video streaming and cost maybe $350 add to that a basic video camera simple no tape , no play , simple, $150 . Now a little software $50 and we now have cheap video telephones using our TV. At&T can lock in 1/2 of the US market with this contract. If they can make a deal with Time Warner's Road runner then they will have a lock on almost the entire business.

To: ahhaha who wrote (1273)	1/24/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Altec	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Here's a bit more to help deflate the DSL hype (on the fundamental technical/physics problems of ADSL with cross-talk): zdnet.com > ... customer said he couldn't get service in his building because > of crosstalk problems--even though the building is only 1,150 feet > from the Regional Bell Operating Company's central office. I saw a good discussion of what DSL cross-talk is and why it happens at home.net ... -- Altec

To: ahhaha who wrote (1273)	1/29/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The telephone companies can't mass deploy DSL. We all discussed this long ago. If they attempted to do so, their existing infrastructure would be completely jammed. I don't know if this is happening to you, but as the public is beginning to discover the faciltiy of the net, I'm getting "the line is busy" messages with rising frequency of occurence. In the last month everything has grown substantially slower. It is becoming necessary to hog the line, because if you log off, you may not get back on anytime soon. It was my understanding that DSL bypasses the standard switching, going to a purely digital network, and thus this would not be a problem. Is this not true?