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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: drakes353 who wrote (31192)	3/1/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33268

Simple - first you have to realize that the corporate world was not ready for the concept of V+D in any form until recently. Knock about 1.5 years off, add in the normal sales cycle and there you go.

To: drakes353 who wrote (31192)	3/1/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: BDR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33268

I suspect DSL's penetration is already many orders of magnitude higher than BT's. I realize BT is not the same as DSL but for some applications they do seem to be competitive, somewhat interchangeable technologies. From some of the postings here one would think that DSL is a pie-in-the-sky idea that is years away. I don't know how well US West is doing with their roll out or what the other phone companies are doing but here is a sampling of the press coverage pertaining to US West and GTE . I suspect US West spent more on newspaper advertising for the introduction to the Phoenix Metro area alone in the 3rd quarter of '98 than the entire global marketing budget for BT that quarter. 10/31/97 US West Turns On DSL zdnet.com "...The MegaBit Services initially are available to about one-third of US West's subscribers in the Phoenix area...US West intends to expand the service to as much as 85 percent of the populations of Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., and in parts of Utah by the end of the year." 4/20/98 US WEST OFFERS FULL DSL SERVICE IN PHOENIX redherring.com "Plans call for the service to be available to 400,000 Phoenix households by year's end. " 4/24/98 GTE,US West Will Boost DSL zdnet.com "The service will be available in June from 300 points of presence in 16 states, said officials of GTE Network Services, based in Dallas." 7/8/98 U S WEST Launches Lightning-Fast ADSL Internet Service in Des Moines, Ames and Council Bluffs; Customers Can Simultaneously Surf the Net and Make Voice or Fax Calls on One Line uswest.com 7/8/98 U S WEST to Launch Lightning-Fast ADSL Internet Service in Puget Sound Area and Spokane uswest.com Fast Facts about US West's DSL service uswest.com Anybody know a reliable source for the actual number of DSL subscribers? If, as Marshall states on his profile page, "Be There! Multiplexing "the last mile" is the most logical solution until xDSL can make some significant penetration." then the window of opportunity may already be closing for BT.