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Technology Stocks : AT&T -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David C. Burns who wrote (2413)	5/9/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: nghi vu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4298

same here, I live in Portland and US West stinks so bad that not everyone that want DSL will get them. I can't get @athome either but I am tired of hearing the AOLers pounding their chests with DSL. Most of them will wait and wait and wait....The bottom line is it will cost a ton of money for the babybells to upgrade their systems to provide DSL and the politics at the bells are killing them. DSL has been available for 4 years and they can't offer to most yet!!!!! I used to invest in Wstl and Pair and glad to sold them with little loss years back. They have the modems but they can't force the bells to install in quantities yet. It is plain lunacy that AOLers complaint at all. Right now the majority of their $21.95 fee goes to MCI, and the bells. IT WILL BE CHEAPER AND FASTER WHEN AOL LEASE CABLE LINE FROM T AND BYPASS THE BELLS AND MCI. The bells are sweating of loosing this lucrative revenue streams and loosing part of their local bucks to T also. T's actions will force all the bells to spend a lot of money to compete. Put your money in the companies that will have to provide the bells in order for them to offer DSL will be a smart move in the next 6 months. I hold T but I am betting big on cable modem and DSL box makers for the next 12 months. T and the bells will spend billions before most of us can get the services they promise to deliver.