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To: Sandie who wrote (1575)	1/13/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Roy F	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3299

Sandie, I'm out west and we can't even get US West to distribute the service. Cable modems are available in limited areas. At least BEL is trying to compete... and I'm sure other RBOCs will follow. SBC announced they'll be offering/providing the service in California over the next year... Expansion of the offering provides additional opportunities for sales. AFCI is positioned geographically to take advantage. A possibility at the very least. Regards, Roy

To: Sandie who wrote (1575)	1/13/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Bill McCullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3299

Considering that the best you can do with a dial-up connection is 56kbps (which actually provides about 43kbps throughput) I think that 640kbps sounds great. Looks to me like a chance to go from crawling to jogging - not quite running. As far as cable modem service goes I haven't tried it but have heard that it is great. However, I doubt that any cable provider is delivering a full 30Mbps to an end user. Most implementation throttle the bandwidth at somewhere between 500kbps and 1.5Mbps for an individual user which is comparable to the xDSL service. As xDSL technology matures and the carriers gain more of an understanding of how it will behave in their network then the speeds will be increased. 6-8 Mbps downstream is possible with commercially available product today. The consumer should share the enthusiasm for using existing copper because there is no business case for providing low cost, high bandwidth service if it requires installation of Fiber to the Curb or even Fiber to the Neighborhood (yet). Bill