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Technology Stocks : PairGain Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Pirate who wrote (24908)	6/26/1998 8:30:00 AM
From: Norm Demers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36349

From the Yahoo Thread, worth reading: messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com chuckles_barlow Jun 25 1998 4:53PM EDT I work for SBC as a special services tech. I actually put this stuff in every day. What some on this thread fail to do is look at the BIG picture. SBC can't sell long distance untill there is competion. in the area they provide local service. We've gone to court in every area to get the LD resrictions lifted by the FEDS. they won't, untill somebody else sells dial tone. AT&T has tried everything to get into local mkts and has failed. I heard they tried wireless dishes up north. This is not practical. The real plum here is for them to sell dialtone, not just internet access. The problem they now have is to get cable reliable enough to suit people that are used to good service. The problem SBC has is to have larger bandwidth at a CHEAPER PRICE. If your TV bill is around $30-$40 and phone bill around $20-$30 (no LD) and internet access about $20, then RBOCS need more speed at cheaper prices. I personally don't believe everyone wants all these services from one company. I have a satalite dish for TV but was not impressed with their internet service costs. If I get ISDN, I get 2 phone lines and a fast internet access for about $55 mo. Copper is already there and is cheap. What Pairgain needs to do is diversify products,(eg)make cable modems. The technolgy coming to copper is facinating but cost is what sells it. If Pairgain just makes a few narrow products they will be left behind. Right now I think its the best made. The "Gore tax" has been a boon to Pairgain. Every school in my area is now wired for the latest in porno and bombmaking.Most are using Pairgain equip. AT&T is after dial tone, not so much internet or TV service. I also agree with the guy that says AT&T messes up everything they get into(NCR). What Pairgain needs is to stay in R&D and expand. If they don't they will die. Just because AT&T gets into cable doesn't mean its over for copper. Pairgain just needs to lead these trends. I have put in 56KB dsl's for IP's to run 25-30 trunks on. The problem with the internet is not the speed you get from your house to the IP, it's from the IP to the cental office. These guys won't pay the money for the "pipe" to the Internet. If Pairgain gets cheaper for faster stuff, people won't be able to tell the difference from cable to copper.Most central offices are already connected together with fiber, so SBC could theoretically send video, voice,& data competively with cable. The problem is how to get it in your house cheap!