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To: Posty who wrote (5271)	12/9/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Respond to of 9236

I, for one, am certainly NOT forgetting cable. My company has done a cablemodem device and I've got a cable stock on my buy list waiting for it's entrypoint to hit. My view is that cable and DSL do and will increasingly continue to compete for our high-bandwidth dollars. Both sides will profit in the short and middle term ... in the long term, who knows ... the leviathan phone and cable companies are fighting over who gets to control the pipe to your house ... perhaps it will become something else completely ... like pervasive wireless. Short term, DSL is a better deal in my area ... GTE will sell me 256k/64k for $30/mo ... and the wire is all mine ... the cable alternative here have bad performance ... the segments tend to be overloaded. This is strictly a short-term issue as the cable people are paying increasing attention to Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning ... controlling the segment to deliver a guaranteed level of performance to the user ... but they are not there yet ... the standard knock on most cable vendors is that the speed goes to hell during prime-time. Read @Home reviews. Both DSL and cablemodem are entering their hockey-stick growth phase.