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To: Nick who wrote (2242)	9/24/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: zenker	Respond to of 6846

Trading idea!! Take a look at Suncom Telecommunications and see what they are doing. Buy as much as you can. SNLMF. Zenker

To: Nick who wrote (2242)	9/28/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Neil H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

09/28 09:47 Qwest to Provide PointCast with Primary Internet Connectivity QWST.O> Qwest to Provide PointCast with Primary Internet Connectivity DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1998--Qwest Communications (NASDAQ: QWST) today announced it has signed a contract with PointCast Incorporated, the leading broadcaster of personalized news and information to business consumers. Under the multimillion-dollar agreement, Qwest will provide OC-3 (155 mbps) connectivity to the Internet for the PointCast(tm) Network. The high-speed capacity on the nationwide Qwest Macro CapacitySM Fiber network will provide the majority of PointCast's 1.2 million active viewers with, among other things, faster downloads of the service and the delivery of breaking local, national, world, and industry news as it happens. "PointCast was the first to provide Internet viewers with a free news network, and its popular platform provides one of the most comprehensive and customized Internet news services available today," said Lew Wilks, president of business markets for Qwest. "As Qwest continues to deploy the most advanced, highest capacity network in the world, companies like PointCast, who require reliable, high quality transmission of Internet and data traffic, continue to choose Qwest for their communications needs." As part of Qwest's recently announced commercial availability of its nationwide OC-48 IP network, the company now offers customized Internet solutions for bandwidth intensive customer needs such as e-commerce, video-on-demand and other key data applications. Qwest also offers its customers some of the industries' most aggressive service level agreements including 100 percent network availability. "This partnership with Qwest allows PointCast to implement a more robust network solution, helping the company to grow domestically and internationally," said John Yung, director of network operations and information technology. "The service-level agreement PointCast is receiving from Qwest ensures high performance and lower network latency, which translate into a better viewer experience." PointCast aggregates news and information from more than 700 quality sources worldwide and broadcasts it via the Internet and corporate Intranets directly to viewers' desktops. PointCast's Central Broadcast Facility receives news and information via satellite from sources all over the world, 24 hours a day. That information in compressed and formatted for broadcast using PointCast's Smart Broadcast technology. The Qwest Macro Capacity Fiber Network Qwest's planned domestic 18,449-mile network will serve over 130 cities, which represent approximately 80 percent of the data and voice traffic originating in the United States, upon its scheduled completion in the second quarter of 1999. To date, approximately 8,850 miles of the Qwest Macro Capacity Fiber Network are activated, and construction has commenced on 17,773 miles. Qwest's transcontinental segment extends from Los Angeles to Sacramento and across to New York. Additionally, Qwest owns transatlantic submarine capacity linking the United States to Europe and will jointly own a transpacific submarine cable system connecting the U.S. to the Pacific Rim. Qwest is also extending its network 1,400 miles into Mexico with completion slated for late 1998. Regards Neil