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To: Stoctrash who wrote (32899)	5/4/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Intel, Microsoft, cable giants to promote cable modems By Jim Davis Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM May 3, 1998, 7:00 a.m. PT Intel and Microsoft, which recently formed a group touting high-speed Internet access through the use of DSL (digital subscriber line) technology, are set to join forces tomorrow with companies such as Tele-Communications, Incorporated and Time Warner to promote even faster Internet access through cable service providers. Computer and cable industry heavyweights will form the Cable Broadband Forum (CBF), a non-profit corporation that will work to "increase public awareness" of cable technologies. Initially the group will focus on cable modems, and later digital TV set-top boxes. "Our objective is to raise awareness that [Internet service via cable companies] is in the market today and not a developing technology," said Tom Cullen, vice president of Internet services for MediaOne and chairman of the CBF. The CBF said that there already 200,000 customers with high-speed Net access from cable operators, and that revenue to operators will triple by the end of 1998, based on figures from market research firm Kinetic Strategies. Continued... news.com

To: Stoctrash who wrote (32899)	5/4/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Kirch................................. Germany's Kirch: Will Merger Block Doom DTV? German media group Kirch Gruppe has warned that unless the European Union allows Kirch to merge with the pay-TV channel of Bertelsmann AG, it will be forced to cease its digital television service DF1. Bertelsmann's Premiere service is Kirch's biggest competitor. An EU commissioner told Kirch and Bertelsmann they have to offer changes to their proposed Pay-TV alliance within the next several weeks or have the merger vetoed by the EU's competition directorate. The commission is concerned that the merger will lead to a monopoly on the German pay-TV market and about possible conflicts of interest in free TV. DF1 has been on the air since July 1996 and is available to about 160,000 German households. A Kirch spokesman says the company has invested more than DEM1 billion (US$559 million) into the station.