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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (2531)	9/27/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 4134

Mark, Hungary has always been the most capitalistic of the former Soviet Republics,and has the most advanced fiber optic system in Europe. That article was about a media company,like CBS,not the network infrastructure. Anyway, some news from TCI. At Tele-Communications Inc. -- which is in the process of sorting out how it will merge with AT&T Corp. if the deal goes through, as planned -- engineering priorities appear to be shifting toward telephony now that digital-video launches are clipping along. "First and foremost are the network upgrades and the continued rollout of high-speed data," said Tony Werner, TCI's executive vice president, engineering. "Directly after that, our priority is voice communications over hybrid fiber-coaxial." He described this as both constant-bit-rate and Internet-protocol types. In a change from years past, cable's top engineers didn't put rebuilds and upgrades at the top of their priority lists. Although all of them cited the need for 750-megahertz, two-way plant, none cited that as their top concern for the waning months of 1998. "We're still doing a lot of rebuild, but that's getting to be old news," Wright said, describing InterMedia's aggressive stance on making its networks ready for 750-MHz, bidirectional traffic. Instead, he said, it's simultaneous launches of digital video and high-speed data. multichannel.com Tim