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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Moonray who wrote (13295)	3/3/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Well they are cleaning up the FUD a bit, at least they mentioned not all modems have V.90 code available, but they buried it at the bottom of the article (news release). Beginning of release: If you bought an X2-based 56 kilobits-per-second (Kbps) modem from 3Com [NASDAQ:COMS], such as a US Robotics Sportster or Courier 56K modem, upgrades to the new international V.90 56K modem standard are now available online. All V.90 upgrades are backwards-compatible to the X2 standard, 3Com said. End of release: Not all 3Com US Robotics modems can be upgraded to V.90 by a simple software download. It depends on whether the modem is an internal or external model, whether it includes voice capabilities and when it was made. Also, some upgrades are still being developed, said another 3Com source. Sure sounds different in the first paragraph! Would the old USR have done this kind of press release??? I think not. *Oh...thanks Mr. Messenger! <G>*