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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2375)	11/23/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks, Ken, for the article. Unfortunately, what's goin' on up in Silicon Valley does me nada. It is my impression that PacBell delivers a much better quality service in No. Cal. than So. Cal. Up north, their infrastructure is more extensive & modern. Down in So. Cal., their infrastructure is more limited, with GTE maintaining a significant market share. Hence, the overall infrastructure is more antiquated. One would think So. Cal., as the larger population center, would have the superior telco infrastructure. But we all know these guys don't operate in a competitive market. The other thing I fear, & rationally so, is that I won't be in "the 90% of Californians" cited in the article. As a far as TCI, right now I'm being served by Century Communications, whose infrastructure is quite antiquated. After initially announcing delivery of internet access service by January 1997, the latest prognosis is sometime in 2000 . . . maybe. The answer is simple -- move.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2375)	11/29/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: Karl Zetmeir	Respond to of 12823

The telecoms are only telling you half the story. Fatter pipes, faster access is very nice ... but they're having major problems with "the last mile." Fortunately ... there is an alternative solution on the horizon: ultra-high compression. With ultra-high compression, it's possible to reduce the size of the packet by 90+% and deliver it over POTS ... no modem change, no line change, no computer change. What's more, you can use the same technology to compress your entire disk, including MPEG3 files you may already have (3:1) ... imagine turning your 1 gig hard drive into 10 gigs without having to buy new and making it much faster as the disk heads don't have to search as far. Further, the technology can read your files without decompression. How do I know about it? I personally hosted a technology demo for some friends of mine for interested investors and customers last Friday. Still has a ways to go for commercialization ... but the basic technology is there!