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To: Bill who wrote (23317)	4/29/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36349

Heh, heh ... this is Redmond, WA ... I'll bet the GTE service is fully subscribed out of the chute. I'm looking at the $60/month for the low-end 256Kb service ... which whips up on GTE's own ISDN offering of ISDN primary (128Kb) for $70/month. Besides, the initial offering price is irrelevant, we'll have to see how it settles down. Reading between various lines, I'm hallucinating that the equipment is Fujitsu/Orckit head-end and client side. I think this is a landmark announcement because: - other than PacBell's hand-wave, this is first major rollout - this is first rollout of a series planned by GTE - the response was of high quality - it appears well-integrated into GTE infrastructure (not stepchild) Until now, the xDSL rubber has not hit the road ... starting in June, it will ... there will no doubt be squealing noises and lots of smoke as the rubber actually engages the road surface ... then we'll see what we actually get for a resultant vector.