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Technology Stocks : Echostar Comm. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carter Patterson who wrote (722)	3/21/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1394

My view on internet services (correct me if I you differ): Standard phone lines = copper,slow, noisy, but cheap ISDN = copper, a little faster, less noisy, expensive, hard to get DSL = copper, very fast, expensive (for now), not widely available Cable = coax, super fast, cheap, but largely unavailable due to cable co incompetence Fiber = glass, super duper fast, very expensive, unavailable unless you are the govt or a big company Broadcast Satellite (DISH, DSS) = DSL-type speed downlink (very fast), no uplink (needs phone lines for data out, but you don't send much data out), clean, cheap (should be, anyway) Teledesic Satellite = whatever Bill Gates wants to promise, but don't bet on it; really expensive, I bet Wireless = urban only, fast, noisy (interference), expensive Data carried on TV signals, either wireless or cable -- could be fast, cheap, clean -- mmm, what am I mising? Take a look at WAVO -- could be a killer ap. If this goes, Echostar could play in this big time. PBS stations will be the first experiment. Anyone from Echostar reading this? Charlie???