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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jeffbas who wrote (9100)	6/4/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Don Hand	Respond to of 21142

Everyone is focusing on Cable but Telcos with their DSL keeps popping up. USWest offers the following story. I cut and pasted some of it. USWest is part owner of Intertainer. Also interesting that CCUR job postings has one position open in Denver for IVOD cable, home of USW. However it could also be for a cable MSO. Another job opening is Multimedia with experience in PC software on client PC's. This fits with BackWeb push technology for corporate and education use. Just speculation on my part. news.com "…The Denver-based company took an early lead in rolling out high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access, and has experimented with cable TV and video-on-demand systems over DSL lines. It has yet to roll out these more advanced services beyond trials, however. But where Bell Atlantic and SBC Communications have already signed deals allowing America Online to use their high-speed DSL wires for its service, US West is doing its best to preserve its own brand. "We're not actively in discussion with AOL," said US West !nterprise group president Joe Zell in an recent interview with Cnet News.com. "Our business model is not to be just a dumb pipe for other providers." The BackWeb deal isn't the first time US West has sought a push partner to help ground its new consumer Internet service. Last fall US West was part of a consortium of telcos working with PointCast, to create a joint consumer Internet service, similar to high-speed access provider @Home Network, using DSL lines. But that deal fell though after the consortium, which also included BellSouth and Bell Canada, decided they would need another large partner to be successful, sources close to the talks said. The company hopes to have the service ready for rollout by the end of the third quarter or beginning of the fourth quarter of 1999, D'Costa said. The system will have a new brand, in addition to the US West.net Internet service, but the company not yet settled on a name, he added."