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mega speed internet for us ?

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  • 04-06-1998 5:40pm
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    Hmm, they say Europe is six months behind the States when it comes to IT. Is Ireland included in that statement.

    Full article: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980603/dc_bell_at_1.html

    Company Press Release

    SOURCE: Bell Atlantic

    New Bell Atlantic High-Speed ADSL Service To Shift Internet Surfers Into HyperDrive

    Suite of 'Always-On' Services Will Be Brought to Markets Served by More Than 7 Million Lines by Year-End 1999

    WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers and at-home workers in several mid-Atlantic markets will be among the first in the world to order
    ``always-on,'' high-speed Internet access starting this September, Bell Atlantic announced today.

    The digital high-speed service will provide a link to the global Internet that will always be available at the click of a mouse. No dialing. No busy signals.

    The company's deployment of the new suite of Bell Atlantic InfoSpeed Internet access services, powered by Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
    technology, will begin in the Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas in September. New Jersey's Hudson River waterfront will follow
    in October. Service in these mid-Atlantic markets will be deployed to more than two million lines by the end of 1998 and five million more in 1999.

    The New York City and Boston metropolitan areas will begin to come on-line next year. Additional markets will be announced in the future.

    The new service will supercharge an existing phone line by using ADSL technology to provide connections ranging from 640 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 7.1
    megabits per second (Mbps) -- up to 250 times faster than a traditional 28.8 Kbps modem.


    -- Bell Atlantic Personal InfoSpeed (up to 640 Kbps, with Bell
    Atlantic.net Internet access) at $69.95 a month for unlimited use;
    -- Bell Atlantic Professional InfoSpeed (up to 1.6 Mbps, with Bell
    Atlantic.net Internet access) at $109.95 a month for unlimited use;
    -- Bell Atlantic Power InfoSpeed (up to 7.1 Mbps, including Bell
    Atlantic.net Internet access) at $189.95 a month for unlimited use.


    Start-up fees will be held to less than $200 during introductory promotional periods. This will include a $99 one-time connection fee, and -- for Bell Atlantic.net
    subscribers -- an ADSL modem for under $100, the waiver of fees for inside wiring work and the waiver of fees for a specialist to aid in the set-up of the
    person's at-home computer. Further, the service will come with a customer care, money-back guarantee for all one-time charges if a customer decides not to
    continue service within 30 days of installation.

    Bell Atlantic InfoSpeed also will be available to other Internet Service Providers to package with their Internet access offerings. Three levels of high-speed
    connections will be offered, priced at flat monthly rates: InfoSpeed 640K at $39.95, InfoSpeed 1.6M at $59.95 and InfoSpeed 7.1M at $109.95.



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