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Technology Stocks : General Instrument Corp.'98 (GIC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: White Shoes who wrote (245)	4/20/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 615

White Shoes, General Instruments split into three entities and became Next Level, General Semiconductor, and Commscope. Next Level (new) had some problems and decided to change its name back to General Instruments. It was having a hard time starting up Next Level Communications, so it decided to get NLC (new,new) off its books by making it into a seperate company. ( a very complicated structure). Anyway, GIC will benefit from success at Next Level but they are not the same company. Try GI home page for a better history of this confusing structure. irthrifty Hope that was helpful

To: White Shoes who wrote (245)	4/21/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: matt gray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 615

White shoes, no offense intended. My only point is that the core GIC product in production is HFC based. Furthermore there are lots of ADSL, IDSL, VSDL etc companies attempting to gain marketshare in the xDSL market. This includes Aware, Amati, Pairgain, Westell, DSC, Orckit etc on the Loop side of the network. The problem is that with all the problems in multi non-interoperable slick cabinets, loop length issues, loop splicing issues, overall lack of standards and the reluctanct of the ILECs to cannabalize their networks this is not a place where I would invest. regards, matt