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To: sargent who wrote (13813)	11/2/1998 6:31:00 AM
From: Neal Hopper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Something to follow::: biz.yahoo.com

To: sargent who wrote (13813)	11/2/1998 8:21:00 AM
From: bill c.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

[ GTE loop-qualification-method/deployments ] GTE Corp.'s GTE Network Services -- the first telco to introduce high-speed-data services, having done so two years ago -- will end the year ahead of projected goals for its ADSL services. As of last week, GTE had upgraded 212 of its 300 targeted central offices with the equipment needed to offer asymmetrical-digital-subscriber-line services, with plans to blow past the 300 benchmark before year-end, said Parker Blackwell, director of advanced business products and services for the telco. With 300 of GTE's 4,000 central offices upgraded, it will be offering the services to one-third of its customers, in large markets like Los Angeles; Seattle; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Fla., said Jeff Bolton, director of GTE's ADSL program. "This is the first service that I've been associated with where customers are just demanding that we provide it," Blackwell said, adding that GTE's customers are "demanding to pay a deposit to be on a waiting list" for DSL. But Blackwell and Bolton added that for now, the market is big enough for both cable and telco high-speed camps, and there is no need to steal customers from each other. GTE has run into both @Home Network and Road Runner in its ADSL markets, but it said its greatest competitor is time. The telco does have a secret weapon, however: a software system, developed out of necessity, that can pinpoint every area of GTE's nationwide telco plant and discern whether it can support ADSL service. Called "Digital Services Testing System," GTE Labs' system is an artificial-intelligence technique that ties together data from labs, customer-premises equipment, protocol analyzers and facilities databases to provide a snapshot of a particular GTE serving area. multichannel.com

To: sargent who wrote (13813)	11/2/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

sargent-- well, a lot of people are talking about this. for so long we have heard nothing but coax, and now we are finally seeing real DSL deployment, and its bigger than expected. IMHO, high speed data stays over a phone line. despite the crap abount convergence, a TV is still going to be a TV. sure there will be enhanced TV services over a data network, but as a whole i see no reason for the TV to become a computer. what makes TV so great is the ability to go brain dead and just sit in front of it for hours. there is a limit to how much people want to do with a connected TV<G>. there is also the issue of the RBOCs saving their business. i dont think they are too excited by the idea of IP telephony over cable. so they are going to be very agressive with all this, and they can afford to be. at any rate, saying one will win and another will lose is pointless, IMHO. i think both will do very well in their seperate markets. thanks for the heads up on the article. the only question now is will WSTL be a part of it? good luck to all, trey