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To: lml who wrote (3784)	5/19/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: WTC	Respond to of 12823

Re: < I presume there may be some economic value to the telcos in deploying co-axial plant v. fiber that leverages their existing copper infrastructure.> In 1999, that is a bizarre presumption once you leave Ameritech land. Back in the early 1990s, a company called BBT had such a vision for the last 500 feet from their FTTC system -- RG-6 coax to deliver 135Mb/s of data to the STB for video and some ancillary data service. There was a point where BBT had a market cap >$500 million. I lost track of them since they were delisted -- I suppose they may still trade on the pink sheets. Before they crapped out, through their alliance with Lucent, I believe they converted their coax home connection into a pre-VDSL technology that could use the embedded paired copper in most cases. That would be hugely important from a cost of deployment standpoint. Once VDSL in commercially viable, the days of any coaxial tail on a telco digital delivery system are over. Telcos deploying coaxial plant instead of fiber? Hell, even the MSOs hardly put in any new runs of coax! I'm dubious.