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To: D. Newberry who wrote (1546)	5/14/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: jeremic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

In the early days of the cable vs. xDSL debates (circa 1996) there was also the issue of security being a problem with cable, i'm not sure of any developments on this front- also to get symmetrical transmission for cable modems an additional coax line has to be run into the home/business, which is going to be expensive and time consuming-i agree both technologies will have their niche, but xdsl has some advantages if only the rbocs had an incentive to get off their monopolistic asses-fwiw jeremic