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To: John Hunt who wrote (1422)	11/26/1998 7:00:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 4467

Hope on the Horizon? Nortel Networks Expands 1-Meg Modem CPE Portfolio nortel.com << Nortel Networks' 1-Meg Modem is a splitterless, mass-market, high-speed data solution that offers consumers an Internet connection that's over 17 times faster than the fastest analog modem. Several providers, including Transwire Communications of New York, MegsINet of Chicago, Northern Illinois University, Purdue University, and BELL CANADA ARE DEPLOYING THE 1-MEG MODEM THROUGHOUT THEIR SERVICE TERRITORY. To date, Nortel Networks has more than US$1 billion in orders for the product, representing the potential for more than one million end-user lines. >> and Nortel Networks Fast Internet Technology nortel.com << Nortel Networks' line of fast Internet products will let you use the web in a whole new way. They'll give you Internet access at megabit speeds (dozens of times faster than any other widely-available technology) at an affordable price. And, perhaps just as exciting, they'll give you access that's "always-on," without tying up your phone lines. >> Hope on the horizon for those of us short term Canadian traders without access to cable modems? < g > John PS - Actually, I heard a rumour that Bell mass deployment by Bell Canada of this Nortel ADSL service will begin early next year ... ADSL service using Westell equipment has been limited to city core subscribers so far (at least in Ottawa) ... But who knows for sure.