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To: gtc123 who wrote (955)	1/29/1998 3:56:00 PM
From: James Fink	Respond to of 2063

I find it interesting that U S WEST is bidding in the LMDS auction despite the fact that it plans to roll out ADSL this year. Perhaps this means that U S WEST believes that LMDS can do things that ADSL cannot? US West to roll out ADSL service -- Plans to bring high-speed Net and data service to 40 cities in the first half of 1998 DENVER, Jan. 29 U S West Communications Group said Thursday it would offer an ultra-fast Internet and data service to residential and business customers in more than 40 cities in its 14-state core region in the first six months of 1998.ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ THE LOCAL PHONE CARRIER said its new ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) service offers speeds of up to 7 million megabits per second, or 250 times faster than standard computer modem connections to the Internet. ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿThe high-speed Internet service was first deployed in late October in Phoenix, still the only city in the United States where Digital Subscriber Line service is broadly available. ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿThe service, to be available in phone networks serving 5.5 million customers in more than 40 cities by June, will be offered at flat-rate prices starting at $40 a month for home users and $65 a month for business offices. ÿ ÿ This is a renaissance of the copper phone network, Joe Zell, president of U S West's networking unit, said, referring to its high-speed Internet connections using the existing copper-wire phone network the company has laid over the years. ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿADSL connections give customers a constant link to the Internet by eliminating the waiting time required by modems to dial up and connect to the network and thereby provide near-instantaneous retrieval of information from Web sites. ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿU S West said the ADSL system it was installing met industry standards set by Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and the six major U.S. local phone carriers. ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿSeveral Baby Bell phone companies have announced plans to roll out similar high-speed Internet services in their local phone regions during the coming year.

To: gtc123 who wrote (955)	1/29/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: James Fink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Crosstalk Slows Rollout of DSL By Carmen Nobel January 23, 1998 3:35 PM PST PC Week DSL deployment problems facing RBOCs run deeper than mere splitter installation woes. Pacific Bell Corp., which has rolled out ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) in San Francisco, has refused the service to several customers in business offices because of problems involving crosstalk with existing T-1 lines. Crosstalk, or interference between the lines, tends to make ADSL run slowly. One 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. "It was unfortunate, as a small business, not to be able to order DSL services, which would fit very nicely into our Internet needs," said Greg Howard, an analyst at Infonetics Research Inc., a San Jose, Calif., company with 20 employees. "Disturber problems have been an issue with DSL from the very beginning," said David Cooperstein, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. "It's an old problem that didn't go away." Other RBOCs--SBC Communications Corp., Ameritech Corp. and BellSouth Corp.--are counting on their DSL equipment provider, Alcatel Networks Systems Inc., to address the problem, said officials at those companies. Alcatel will release the 3.0 version of its DSL access multiplexer by the third quarter, according to Alcatel officials in Raleigh, N.C. The new release should improve speed and distance and help, if not solve, the crosstalk problems, officials said. Upon release of Alcatel's new multiplexer, SBC will deploy DSL in several additional cities, including Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif., Dallas, and Houston, said SBC officials in Houston.