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To: jeremic who wrote (9780)	3/17/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Chemsync	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21342

German Rollout Our day will come Jeremic Tuesday March 17, 11:40 am Eastern Time D.Telekom plans mass Net phone, ADSL launch By William Boston HANOVER, March 17 (Reuters) - German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE:DT - news; DTEG.F) on Tuesday unveiled plans for a broad launch of Internet-based telephony services and high-speed ADSL digital lines for residential and business customers. Telekom made a first step towards devloping Internet phone products last year by taking a stake in market leader VocalTec (VOCLF - news), an Israeli technology company, and has conducted several pilot projects to test products. Now company officials said the time has come to take Internet telephony out of the laboratory and into the market. ''We are going into the mass market in the autumn,'' Detlev Buchal, Telekom board member for sales and distribution, told a news conference ahead of the CeBIT technology fair. He gave no details about pricing. Using software products such as VocalTec's ''Internet Phone,'' Net surfers have turned the global computer network over the past few years into a cheap alternative for making long distance phone calls. Because of its structure, the price of an Internet call is always the cost of a local phone call, regardless of whether the caller is speaking to someone across the street or around the world. Telekom is one of the first major telecommunications companies to get behind Internet telephony in a big way. ''I don't know of any telecommunications company that is moving as aggressively here as we are,'' said Telekom chairman Ron Sommer. ''We are methodically creating the technologically conditions to expand Internet telephony into innovative applications,'' he added. Sommer said recent speculation that the company planned to invest billions in Internet telephony was overdone. ''There were a few too many zeros attached,'' he said, but declined to give specific figures. Sommer said the company did not expect Internet telephony to pose a danger to its core business, but that it would compliment its business by added a low-cost alternative. ''It is like an airline that offers business class, first class and economy class,'' he said. ''We also want to expand into economy class.'' For determined Net surfers and big businesses hungry for network speed, Telekom plans to accelerate development of asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology. ADSL allows high-speed digital transmission of data over normal copper wires at a much faster rate than existing Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and makes such services as video-on-demand possible. ''ADSL is the next step we plan to take,'' said Buchal. ''In the long-term we see this as a mass market application because even residential customers are demaning broadband capacity.'' Telekom is the world leader in deployment of ISDN, which can transport up to 64,000 bytes per second in one channel and can combine channels to increase bandwidth. In Germany, there are over 7.6 million ISDN channels installed and widely used in business and at home. The basic monthly charge for an ISDN line is below the price of two conventional telephone lines, but calling charges are the same. When asked about how Telekom planned to price ADSL services, Buchal said the current high price level for ADSL services would likely fall in accordance with rising demand, just as had been the case with ISDN. He urged the telecommunications regulator, however, not to enforce a price that was too low too early in the development of ADSL. ''One must position this product in the market at market-oriented prices,'' he said.

To: jeremic who wrote (9780)	3/17/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Michael Perez	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Has anyone considered the fact the analyst downgrading WSTL was trying to tell us something? Maybe they knew something or were disappointed with WSTL's answers. This stock is on the verge of exploding, up or down. So many people are sitting around waiting for the next great news announcement that any hint (high volume) something is going on, will make them jump in for fear of missing something. The volume the other day means (to me) the small investor and the large ones, with money are in agreement, WSTL is going to be bought out, and are waiting to jump on board. The price as Trey has mentioned is going to be between 25-30 per share. That's assuming WSTL does not hit the street with a flood of bad news! Then the buy out drops to 15, as WSTL will be at (after the flood, i.e. no GTE, no BA everyone hates WSTL) at 10. As for tomorrow the price has to stay above 14. I feel a close below 14 may indicate a short term SELL!!!!! SELL!!! SELL!!! signal. Whereas a nice close, close to 15 on high volume would indicate a solid BUY!!! BUY!!! BUY!!! then hold signal. (although I would not expect it to go higher than 15 1/4, until the channel lines turned up) The worst thing that could happen in my opinion is Lucent buys ASND. ASND has ADSL tech. That could be a disaster for the buy out camp. (Rumors have been running wild about a ASND buyout by LU) GOOD LUCK

To: jeremic who wrote (9780)	3/17/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Respond to of 21342

jeremic-- i am ROFL. usually, you are the one who posts the info<G>. yeah, its pain, and the only thing we can do is report to the SEC. maybe they will investigate it, but i doubt it since they have such a heavy caseload of penny stock fraud actions to fight<G>. good luck to all, trey

To: jeremic who wrote (9780)	3/17/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: PiedPiper	Respond to of 21342

Does anyone know why FON increases their network capacity by 250%? Long Distance Service gonna expand that much? What high capacity communications services are they offering to business customers? from 3/16 SPRINT INCREASES NETWORK CAPACITY, PERFORMANCE WITH DEPLOYMENT OF CIENA'S SCALEABLE 40-CHANNEL MULTIWAVE 4000 New DWDM Technology Secures Sprint's Lead in Data Communications KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 16, 1998 -- Sprint and CIENA Corporation together announced today that Sprint has chosen CIENA's 40-channel MultiWave 4000 scaleable dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system for deployment next month in the Sprint network. Such a move will enable Sprint to immediately increase its current network capacity by 250 percent, and eventually by 600 percent to deliver high-performance communication services to Sprint's business and data customers. In addition, both parties have signed a three-year supply agreement for the MultiWave 4000. Sprint's use of the MultiWave 4000 will mark the first time that a long distance carrier has deployed a 40-wavelength system in its network. In early 1996, Sprint began installing CIENA's 16-channel product, leading the industry in DWDM deployment. Based on design innovations recently introduced by CIENA and announced separately today, the MultiWave 4000 is scaleable on a channel-by-channel basis from 40 channels, or 100 Gb/s, to 96 channels, or 240 Gb/s, which enables Sprint to protect its investment in its existing fiber-optic network and expand capacity in the future. Such a capability will enable Sprint to deliver high-performance solutions more efficiently and at lower cost. When coupled with Sprint's OC-48 SONET equipment, 96-channel DWDM equals almost 3.1 million phone calls over a single fiber pair - enough capacity to carry all the voice traffic of all the major long distance carriers. This capacity also enables Sprint to handle the growing demands for multimedia and high-bandwidth data applications. "As Sprint plans for continued network and traffic growth, scalability is critical," said Marty Kaplan, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Sprint, who recently was named America's Network "Technologist of the Year." "CIENA has consistently delivered high-capacity DWDM systems to help meet the needs of Sprint's customers. With the MultiWave 4000, Sprint will continue its leadership position in voice and broadband services." "After more than a year of shipping our 16-channel, 40 Gb/s DWDM systems to Sprint, we are gratified that CIENA has received this additional vote of confidence, especially because it follows Sprint's industry-wide review of competing DWDM systems," said Patrick Nettles, CIENA's president and chief executive officer. "The provisioning of greater bandwidth is critical to every carrier, and we're very pleased that when Sprint faced a decision for 200 plus Gb/s deployment, CIENA was selected." The contract is a three-year addition to an existing Sprint/CIENA 16-channel supply agreement, and follows successful acceptance-testing of a fully populated 40-channel MultiWave 4000 DWDM system at Sprint's testing laboratories in Burlingame, Calif. Based in Linthicum, Md., CIENA Corporation is a worldwide market leader of open architecture, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems for long-distance and local exchange carriers. CIENA's DWDM solutions include the MultiWaveƒ 1600 long-haul transport system, WaveWatcherƒ network management software, the MultiWave Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer, the MultiWave SentryO enhanced long-distance transport system and the new MultiWave FireflyO and MultiWave MetroO short-haul systems. Through its Alta subsidiary, based in Norcross, Ga., CIENA provides a range of engineering, furnishing and installation (EF&I) services for telecommunications service providers in the areas of transport, switching and wireless communications. Sprint is a global communications company - at the forefront in integrating long distance, local and wireless communications services and is one of the world's largest carriers of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' only nationwide, all-digital, fiber-optic network and is the leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $15 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 16 million business and residential customers.

To: jeremic who wrote (9780)	3/18/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Curlton Latts	Respond to of 21342

jeremic: I actually like seeing the stock go up without news. As long as that's the case the upside remains unknown and therefore positively enticing. The market is a better indication of the reality regarding any PR spun press releases. Blockbuster good news would be great also, obviously. Perhaps a major contract (remember a 1% market share is worth $3 billion); buyout or top management enhancement. All positives. Good Luck To Each and All Curly ~~~~~~~~^^ [6.6] .....> [_]