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To: otter who wrote (3724)	6/12/1998 1:14:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6180

Good news for TI: <<< GERMANY: Telekom to pilot ADSL data service By Ralph Atkins in Bonn Deutsche Telekom, the German telecoms giant, is to launch a pilot high-speed data service from Monday that will enable it to steal a march on other national carriers in multimedia. The technology, called ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology, could speed the transformation of the industry and opens up the telephone network to video-on-demand and other multimedia services. Although other telecoms groups have launched small-scale ADSL trials, Deutsche Telekom said yesterday it saw its pilot as a precursor to a national roll-out. The German group sees the new high-speed links as a supplement - rather than a threat - to its existing integrated digital services network (ISDN) which it has invested billions of D-Marks in recent years. It also argued that ADSL can run alongside its extensive but lossmaking conventional cable television activities. Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom chairman, said the goal was to open the new generation of digital services "to the mass market". Gerd Tenzer, board member with responsibility for networks, added: "We expect that by the start-up phase at the beginning of next year several tens of thousand customers will be taking advantage of our ADSL offer - by the end of next year, up to 100,000." After the pilot tests with 100 business and 350 private customers in North Rhine Westphalia, northern Germany, Deutsche Telekom will from this year offer the new service in eight cities: Hamburg, Berlin, Dsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich. ADSL technology allows the transmission of up to 8mbps to customers and up to 768kbps in the opposite direction. That compares with up to 128kbps on an normal ISDN connection, which consists of two 64kbps lines. Deutsche Telekom believes it has a big advantage over US telecoms groups because of the relatively short distance between its local exchanges and customers. This means Deutsche Telekom can offer almost all its customers transmission speeds of 6mbps or more; in the US the maximum would be about 1.5mbps. ADSL has considerable benefits over other competing "broadband" technologies because it uses standard copper-wire networks which can be upgraded at relatively low cost. The main investment would be in expanding "backbone" networks between switching stations.>>>