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macphee@conan.ids.net (Donald Mac Phee Ii) wrote:

>In article <1997040819435023611@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
>Paul Womar <News@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Dennis L <dlaf@primenet.nospamcom> wrote:
>
>>> >Plus, from what I hear, most companies won't be going along with the US
>>> >Robotics 56k standards.  Others are waiting for someone else (I think
>>> >Lucent Tech., maybe?) to come up with another standard.  Who will set the
>>> >standard?  Who will win the battle of USR vs. the world?  Well, I won't be
>>> >spending $ 200 on that bet.... You may want to wait till it's decided, or
>>> >you may find that no one has a USR 56k for you to connect to
>>> >anyway......Just a thought.
>
>It's all moot anyway... xDSL, Cable modems, IDSN, and saltellite link are
>all going to bring it to you faster, cheaper, more reliable.  Playing
>around in the 0-3khz range is going to be useless in a matter of months to
>a year.
>
>The battle over modems was lost when the Communications Act of 1996 was
>signed.  USR, and Diamond are all fighting over minimal bandwidth
>communications devices.
>
>Hence, the reason *I*'m not buying any more modems.

You're going to have a long wait.  Widespread deployment of those
technologies at affordable prices won't be happening anytime soon, much
less in "a matter of months to a year."

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