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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1716)	11/2/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

GTE applauds FCC ruling on Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line --ADSL-- tariff November 2, 1998 WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge Corporation -- GTE Today Issued the Following Statement That May Be Attributed to Geoffrey C. Gould, GTE Vice President - Government & Regulatory Affairs. The need for speed by consumers and business professionals when using the Internet is enormous, and the FCC's ruling that asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) traffic is interstate in nature, frees GTE to feed the bandwidth hunger of today's Internet users. GTE is pleased with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order ruling that the company's high-speed Internet access service offering is correctly tarriffed at the federal level. With this ruling, the FCC has removed a barrier toward enabling broad-based deployment of this remarkable service. By its vote, the FCC has given users the most valuable online commodity today -- speed. With ADSL, customers can access the Internet, and download information up to 30 times faster than is possible with a 28.8 kbps modem. ADSL gives Internet users at work, home and school a competitive edge. This remarkable service also paves the way for increased productivity and considerably improved performance compared to lower speed modems. Just last week, the International Telecommunications Union voted on the G.lite ADSL standard -- a consumer-friendly standard that will accelerate the deployment of easy-to-install ADSL service for consumers. GTE has conducted successful tests of this new standard, and expects it to become available to consumers next year. Having conducted the industry's first ADSL trial in 1996, GTE will build upon its leadership position by aggressively advancing its high-speed Internet access deployment forward. GTE already today has activated service in more than 215 central offices, offers ADSL in 15 states and has formed agreements with 52 regional Internet service providers who today sell ADSL direct to their subscribers. By the end of this year, we will offer ADSL in more than 30 markets in 16 states, served by approximately 300 central offices that support some 6 million customer access lines -- the nation's largest deployment of ADSL. In 1999, we will expand our service offering by serving additional markets as well as broadening our service deployment in markets already served today.