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IBM Challenges Pac Bell's Project Victoria

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From: Werner Uhrig
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1986 08:11
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[ see INFOWORLD, 86/8/26, page 3 ]

... experimental system to produce an integrated digital voice and data network
[see TELECOM back-issues] for home telephone users, has drawn fire from IBM and
severak communications vendors.

IBM charged in a complaint with the FCC that it includes Customer Premises
Equipment (CPE) which, under fivestiture ruling, baby-Bells are not allowed
to do.

A Pac-Bell spokesman said that the network does not rely on CPE ...
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