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To: Ahmad Ascha who wrote (12632)	8/13/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Yakov Lurye	Respond to of 21342

AA, BEL will seemingly offer a competitive price structure: $59.95/month for 640K downstream + Bell-Atlantic.net ISP service + 5Megs personal WWW site. $99 for the modem + turn key installation + Ethernet card, if you subscribe to Bell-Atlantic.net DSL package for 1 year. Y.

To: Ahmad Ascha who wrote (12632)	8/13/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Respond to of 21342

ahmad-- BEL is charging around 100 for equipment and installation, and i think 59.95/month for service including ISP. this is better that what i have seen from the cable rollouts. good luck to all, trey

To: Ahmad Ascha who wrote (12632)	8/13/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21342

Ahmad, <<Last I looked it costs over 300$ to install DSL modem with 200$/mos of ISP charges. And no matter how we look at it the speed is comparable.>> Even though your argument is a killer, I am not sure I can agree with you 100 %. For consumer who can get cable service you are correct, ADSL is not competitive, but for the businesses, paing $400 a month for dedicated T1 with garanteed bandwidth ADSL it seems to be more cost effective. The big advantage ADSL has (especially outside of the US) is that there is 10 to 100 times as many telephone lines in most of the localities as there are cables.