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To: TokyoMex who wrote (1201)	6/2/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: STEAMROLLER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8798

Buying more DIXS now !! break up your orders into smaller lots. don't let this one pass buy. someone help the guy who just sold at .9375

To: TokyoMex who wrote (1201)	6/2/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8798

T/Mex--This may augur a paradigm shift>> Sprint plans landmark upgrade with multiple uses for single line Sprint Corp. is raising the stakes in the telecommunications wars, offering its customers the chance to simultaneously talk on the phone, receive faxes and connect with the Internet using a single phone line. The nation's third biggest long-distance phone company expects the new service unveiled today will eliminate the need for customers to have multiple phone lines. It said the new system would reduce its costs for delivering a typical voice phone call by more than 70 percent and cut the costs of a video call to below what it costs for a typical long-distance call today. Sprint chairman William T. Esrey said customers' monthly bills would stay about the same, but they would get far more sophisticated service - including Internet connections at up to 100 times faster than a conventional modem. Sprint's announcement said the new service results from a combination of technological advances rather than a single technology and results from five years of confidential work. It expects to start making the service available to large businesses later this year and expand it to businesses of all sizes by the middle of 1998. It should be available to residential users in late 1999. Sprint hopes to make the new service available in 36 major markets this year and a total of 60 markets next year. "This truly is the Big Bang that expands the universe of what telecommunications can do in our homes and businesses,'' Esrey said in a statement. Sprint has already invested more than $2 billion in upgrading its network to handle the new service, which it has been testing privately with business and consumers for the past year, Esrey said. It will need approval from local phone companies to hook its new service to local phone systems. Negotiations could be difficult since Sprint says the new service also will serve as its basis for competing with local phone companies. The Wall Street Journal said Sprint also must persuade customers to pay $200 for a device that will act as a meter to measure monthly use of the system. Cisco Systems is providing key hardware for what is being called the Integrated On-Demand Network, with Bellcore providing the central software. Sprint will sell the service through RadioShack, which already sells Sprint mobile telephone service. Several big companies have already committed to using the Sprint service including Hallmark, Silicon Graphics, RadioShack parent Tandy and Ernst & Young LLP, the announcement said. Sprint, which trails AT&T Corp. and MCI Communications Corp. in the long-distance business, is the first to announce a new telecommunications system on such a large scale. There have long been promises of full-service networks offering everything from video on demand, electronic shopping and more. But telephone companies need greater capacity and more efficient transmission technologies to send the huge amount of data. Carriers now use different transmission technologies for voice and data. And keeping lines open for lengthy online use ties up circuits. Experts said an integrated network is needed to combine voice, video and data and pipe them over the same lines.