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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scotsman who wrote (2467)	11/29/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Karl Zetmeir	Respond to of 6846

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." That's the copper line that goes from the telephone pole into your house. 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!