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Peter G. Strangman <Peter@adelheid.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:43:23 GMT, phil.henry@telcore.demon.co.uk (phil
: henry) wrote:

: > An aside: xDSL technologies can put 2-8Mb/s down copper.
: > 
: > However, cable modems won't be on the end of copper.

: Eh? What will they be on then?

: All this talk of super-fast access is really  rather
: amusing. Unless the cable co is going cache and/or
: mirror *everything* that *any* user might wish to
: access there is NO WAY that users are going to see
: any benefit whatsoever.

I think this (and the general commercialisation of the internet) will
lead to the growth of "content providers" who will push info etc directly
to the cable modem operators server allowing access to be done at
the cable modem speed. I.e. while there will be access to the full
interent there will be fast access to say news services etc with
the content providers probably being paid by the cable company out
of modem rental. In fact it will probably end up like the front end
of something like CompuServe or AOL with a set of "local" forums etc
+ a gateway into the rest of the internet however it will probably be
more seamless as everything will be part of the internet - just some
bits will be considerably closer than others.

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