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To: SteveG who wrote (10472)	3/2/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 12468

just finished listening to the TGNT conf. call. lots of confidence and self-congratulatory stuff. they are promising to provide detailed quarterly breakdowns of service mix (local, LD, data), revs. per customer, lines per customer, lines per building, buildings, rev. per line, hubs, radios, switches, etc. pretty much all the data one would want in order to measure progress. hopefully WCII and ARTT will match TGNT in increasing the transparency of their quarterly results. some key points from my notes: - data is already proving to be a larger percentage of network traffic than expected and is growing fast. - 40 cities in U.S. by year end (24 now); most of the remaining 16 will ramp up in H2CY99. - half of radios installed to date are P-MP. - int'l proceeds at its own pace; no firm announcements planned the conf. call was terminated abruptly just as Pickle was starting to answer about TNGT's plans to buy/build/lease local and intercity fiber. will have to catch his reply on the replay.

To: SteveG who wrote (10472)	3/2/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Way, way off topic But since I'm having so much fun with this, I thought I'd pass it on. If anyone has been thinking of getting or updating your printer, I highly recommend a new (at least to me) up and comer company called Alps. I just bought a new Alps MD-1300, which claims photographic quality output, but the reality even blows away my expectations. I've scanned (yes Steve, I broke down and bought a scanner. That's what grand daughters can do to you :-)) and printed some professional pictures we've had taken, and you really can not tell a difference. The photo quaility mode even has a clear overcoat it applies over the picture which gives it the glossy look. Absolutely no evidence of dots or picelization. And even on normal print mode, printing a page of text for example comes out as sharp and clear as any lazer printer I've ever seen. It uses a dry ink technology (it uses ribbon cartridges, silmilar to what an old typewriter or cash register would use), so there is no smudgiing at all even right out of the printer. Also, the dry ink doesn't saturate the paper so you don't get that wavy paper like from most ink jets. Here's a review in PC Magazine; zdnet.com And Alps homepage; alpsusa.com While it says retail is around $500, they are for sale in stores or on the internet for $350 to $400. But I've been buying refurbished ones from the uBid online auctions for $219 to $239, good as new and including cartridges, paper, etc. An absolute steal. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programs...