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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1431)	10/2/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Bell Atlantic Partners with ISPs for ADSL Internet Access Internet service providers (ISPs) looking to bring high-speed Internet access to their customers now have a helping hand with Bell Atlantic Corp.'s (www.bell-atl.com) new ISP Partnership Program. The program offers financial incentives, assistance and support to deliver the necessary technology to ISPs that want to offer Bell Atlantic's Infospeed digital subscriber line (DSL) service to customers. The asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology will provide connections up to 126 times faster than a 56 kilobits-per-second (kbps) modem. As authorized sales representatives, ISPs will be able to sell Bell Atlantic's Infospeed DSL service at $39.95 per month for 640kbps, $59.95 per month for 1.6 megabits per second (mbps) and $109.95 for 7.1mbps. "We have had a tremendous amount of response to this program since the announcement was made," says Larry Plumb, director of media relations for Bell Atlantic's Internet services. The actual cost to the ISP to set up this service with Bell Atlantic will depend on the provider's existing infrastructure and the kind of connection they get to the phone network, Plumb says. An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) connection, for example, can cost an ISP up to $3,000 per month, he adds, but there are other options as well. Infospeed will be available this month in Washington and Pittsburgh, with future rollouts into 1999 covering the New Jersey Hudson River waterfront, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.