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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1958)	11/24/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3178

MCI readies Nationwide DSL Rollout -- 25 Metropolitan Areas To Have Service By March November 24, 1998 INFORMATIONWEEK : MCI WorldCom last week disclosed plans to offer high-speed digital subscriber line service nationwide in the next six months. The company's UUNet Internet business will deploy the broadband voice and data service from 400 switching offices by year's end, and from 600 switching offices in 25 major metropolitan areas by March. UUNet has offered DSL for 18 months in San Francisco, Southern California, New York, and Boston. "This is by far the broadest deployment of DSL ever attempted," says MCI WorldCom vice chairman John Sidgemore. DSL runs over the conventional copper telephone network and can reach multimegabit-per-second speeds. UUNet provides Internet access at 128, 384, and 768 Kbps, and will likely offer 1.5-Mbps access within a year, says Kevin Gatesman, UUNet's product manager for business DSL services. "DSL has the potential to be a winner," says Tom Loane, CIO of Transport International Pool Inc. in Devon, Pa. The new service is "a good first step to a VPN-type approach," he adds. MCI WorldCom is considering DSL services for virtual private networks that would provide high-speed remote access to corporate networks via the Internet. MCI WorldCom's 128-Kbps DSL Internet service will be $395 a month plus up to $300 a month for local access; 384-Kbps service will be $495 a month plus local access. The 768-Kbps service is designed for customers to use as needed and will range in price from $650 to $1,400 a month plus local access. Those prices are higher than what Transport International pays for 64- and 128-Kbps frame relay, says Loane. But Bill Dyer, director of IS and technology services for Cincom Systems Inc., a software company in Cincinnati, says the ability to buy DSL service nationwide from one provider might make the high pricing tolerable. Also last week, Covad Communications Co. in Santa Clara, Calif., said it's providing DSL services in the Washington, D.C., area at 1.5 Mbps to download and up to 384 Kbps to upload. Copyright c 1998 CMP Media Inc.