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To: gbh who wrote (39903)	3/18/1998 6:11:00 PM
From: Joseph Colombo	Respond to of 61433

<<Only cable modems, that I am aware of. And these guys are in direct competition with DSL deployment.>> Gary, Actually there is another way. Being in the telephone business, I was trying to thinking of a way for the local small ISP's to perticipate in the DSL thing. Basically it is very simple. )Have the local ISP open an office close to the local telco central office in a town where the ISP could rent copper between the local ISP office and the local telco central office. The ISP would than install in this office the DSL equipment that the local telco would normally put in their central office. )The ISP could than rent the copper pair from the customer to the lcoal central office. ) Than the ISP could make the final connection of the customers copper pair and the DSL equipment in there office. * The final part is for the customer to purchase the retail DSL unit over the counter. Obviously I am simplifying here, but I see away for the little guys and or big guys to go around the telco's. I'm sure there are smarter people that can think of better ways. Joe