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> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 12:07:04 -0500 > From: Peter Leppik <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Sprint's New ION products > To: [email protected], [email protected] > At 10:46 AM 6/3/98 , [email protected] wrote: > [...] > >Has anyone heard any additional information or have any more insight into > >this announcement? I am curious how this might affect the remainder of the > >industry. > > > >Kevin Brown > >Huber & Associates, Inc. > >Networking Technologies > >[email protected] > >http://www.primelink.com/haa/lanwan > > > > I listened to Sprint's press conference yesterday. I came away with a few > solid observations/facts: > > 1) The press conference was an hour-long commercial for ION. > 2) The service will be based on an all-ATM network, doing voice over ATM, and > IP over ATM. Hmmmm. An ATM box for $200 at Radio Shack??? >3) It will be at least a year before ION is deployed to > residential customers. 4) It isn't clear that Sprint knows how to solve the > last mile problem in the face of RBOC stonewalling. > > Finally, in the interest of historical perspective, I would like to point out > that, if dramatic carrier announcements are to be believed, by today most > everyone in the country should be able to order AT&T local service deployed > over a 128 Kbps wireless link, and most people in U.S. West territory should > be able to buy DSL-based Internet access for $40/month. These things have a > way of not going as planned. > > ----------- > Peter U. Leppik, Senior Research Associate > Dain Rauscher Wessels, Equity Capital Markets > > [email protected] > > > http://www.dainrauscher.com/ Dave Nordlund [email protected] University of Kansas 785/864-0450 Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485 Lawrence, KS 66045 KANREN
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