See http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/075308.htm
If this pans out, the possibilities are staggering. I assume that Sprint is
using ADSL technology in some new incarnation. If, as Sprint says, the
monthly cost is comparable to current line costs but that new hardware is
required (of course), even if the new hardware costs hundreds of dollars,
millions of businesses and individuals will snap this up. Imagine the
possibilities...
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Posted at 7:41 a.m. PDT Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Sprint plans upgrade: multiple uses for one line
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Sprint Corp. is raising the stakes in the
telecommunications wars, offering its customers the
chance to
simultaneously talk on the phone, receive faxes and
connect with the
Internet using a single phone line.
The nation's third biggest long-distance phone company
expects the
new service unveiled today would eliminate the need for
customers to
have multiple phone lines.
It said the new system would reduce its costs for
delivering a typical
voice phone call by more than 70 percent and cut the
costs of a video
call to below what it costs for a typical long-distance
call today.
Sprint chairman William T. Esrey said customers' monthly
bills would
stay about the same, but they would get far more
sophisticated
service -- including Internet connections at up to 100
times faster than
a conventional modem.
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