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

To: mauser96 who wrote (25006)	7/4/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Graham Dellaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

Cable will take a certain market share. In the end price will decide and strong consensus on standards. G.lite ADSL if adopted across the board is a start. If telecoms can get access down to 20-30 a month and you can buy a ADSL modem for a hundred bucks, cable is dead. P.S. Business will take ADSL as they can have it bundled with fax and phone lines and PGflex from PairGain can be part of that solution. Graham

To: mauser96 who wrote (25006)	7/4/1998 7:13:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

Lucius, I finally broke down and am installing a T1 (scheduled for 7/24). But this didn't happen until after an interesting conference call between myself, US West representatives (who were hyping ADSL) and my computer service people. (There is no cable modem access in Tucson) Bottom line, the US West guys said that a T1 would be a better choice over DSL (even if it were available in my part of Tucson, which of course it is not). They admitted that the T1 would be dedicated 1.5M both up and downstream (it is not in a frame cloud, hence no 750 CIR limitation) and that DSL could not offer that dedicated bit stream commitment. Also, the max DSL rate I could get was 192KB, and even that was not worth the cost. Anyway, what really decided this issue for me was the USWest agreement that T1 was the best choice (and I'm not buying the T1 from them, so they had nothing to gain). I'll switch to cable modem access if/when it becomes available in Tucson, assuming it is cost justified. But for now, I can find no action whatsoever on that front by the local cable companies. Gary Korn