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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (1164)	4/23/1998 12:03:00 PM
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[caveman alert: Sprint] Sprint to world: "we don't get it!" mark ---- zdnet.com Sprint CEO says existing technology is sufficient By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNN 04.22.98 6:15 pm ET CHICAGO -- Companies will fulfill people's "George Jetson destiny" by integrating existing technologies to improve bandwidth -- not inventing new ones -- Sprint Communications CEO William Esrey said here Wednesday in keynote address at Comdex/Spring '98. Esrey painted Sprint (FON) as a company that lies between the old-guard Baby Bells -- which he said are resisting integration while trying to protect their turf -- and new bandwidth-oriented startups, which he said are trying to reinvent the wheel. "Much of the buzz about new companies is totally overblown," Esrey said. "We don't have to build new networks to get speed. The technology exists right now." Esrey predicted his company would be the first to integrate voice and data services over a "common, nationwide infrastructure." He said the key lies in integrating technologies such as ADSL, frame relay and SONET in a reliable, sophisticated manner. He said that by the year 2000, a single fiber-optic network in the Sprint system will be able to carry 16 times the total voice data carried today by all telecom companies. Users have long lamented that current bandwidth cannot handle the increasing demands of such technologies as data, audio and video. But Esrey said that's about to change. "We'll soon be going from a situation where the bandwidth isn't fast enough to a situation where the applications aren't fast enough," Esrey said.