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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (34950)	2/15/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

I would suspect that xDSL and Cable access will be adequately widespread soon enough to make the two modem product a "flop". While I very much hope that you are right about xDSL or cable (the thought of actually having a CHOICE seems impossibly remote), neither Adelphia (an under-capitalized competitor of TCI) nor Bell-Atlantic (a dyed in the wool monopolist) seems motivated to REALLY move to widely offer broad-band access. Both seem more interested in protecting their existing monopolies and cherry-picking other markets than in making any widely available contributions to the information dirt road. BEL would be happy to sell me a T1 or ISDN at abusive prices, but faces infrastructure investment to offer DSL. They seem rather challenged at operating a conventional POP as it is. Adelphia has been advertising Powerlink in my area for approaching a year without actually making it available on my street: I think a financial or technical plug has been pulled. Only in the past month has 56kb access been offered locally - and not by BEL. (My street actually is paved, has electricity, city water and even sewers! But locally 33.6 was as good as it got.) signed: STILL Starved For Bandwidth