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

To: Scotsman who wrote (3165)	3/18/1999 7:42:00 AM
From: KAF	Respond to of 6846

Seems like you are on to the "last mile" concept, which more will focus on after all these broadband mergers. Look into companies such as Winstar WCII which offer "wireless" broadband as future acquisitions.

To: Scotsman who wrote (3165)	3/18/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Roger Hess	Respond to of 6846

I'm a former 'Amatian'. Amati was a company who developed the DMT side of ADSL technology. Their modems were initially capable of T1 speeds over telephone lines, with the ultimate of 8 Meg/sec. VDSL (HDSL?) is capable of 40-50 Meg/sec. What this means is you can watch television over your phone lines and give the local cable company some competition. You could open up a TV station in your garage and give the TV networks some competition, too. Anyway, the telcos were, shall we say, 'slow' to adopt the technology and Amati sold out to Texas Instruments. Amati loaned some modems to programmers at Microsoft to test them in their homes, and they didn't want to let go of them when it was time to return them. The telcos or whoever wants to charge an additional $50/month for the speeds, but my thinking is that the upgrade of a modem from 56k to 1.5 Meg should be a natural step, just like going from 14.4 to 28.8 was. Why should we have to pay the extra $$$? Amati was a three-bagger for me in the two years I owned it. I was looking for something last year and was turned on to Qwest when I read about it in Wired Magazine. As far as fiber modems, we'll be seeing them someday soon. I also think we'll see optical computers. Once you run fiber all the way to the chip, the chip becomes the slowest component in the system!