Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: jhild who wrote (14536)	4/6/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

>>But the short side of QWST would make me nervous, as I don't see fundamental breakdown in their story, though I am not certain that the LCI deal is good,or bad for that matter. I think it's good for Qwest. I gives them an excellent sales force, knowledge in handling consumer and business markets, some switches in a few major metropolitan markets, and instant capacity utilization for their unused bandwidth. It also makes them very attractive to British Telecom, for all of the above reasons. <g>

To: jhild who wrote (14536)	4/6/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Tokyo Internet to Cut Internet Server Access Fees Up to 35% Tokyo, April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Internet Corp., a corporate Internet service provider, said yesterday it will cut its Internet access fees between 7 percent and 35 percent beginning in June, Nikkei English News reported. The Tokyo-based company will lower rates on 10 different data transmission speeds, with its 128 kilobits-per-second line getting the 35 percent reduction, cutting its monthly fee to 122,000 yen ($905) a month from 188,000 yen. The move will make Tokyo Internet's rates the lowest in Japan for firms that provide 24-hour data security on high-speed transmission lines, NEN said. Japan, with 6.5 million Internet accounts, is the second- largest Internet market in the world, after the U.S. o~~~ O