From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:05:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Computer makers speed up Internet [CNN]
Message-ID: <199801270559.XAA31665@einstein.ssz.com>
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>                COMPUTER, PHONE COMPANIES SEEK TO SPEED INTERNET
>                                        
>      graphic January 26, 1998
>      Web posted at: 9:46 p.m. EST (0246 GMT)
>      
>      WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top computer firms Compaq, Intel and Microsoft
>      and leading telephone and networking companies Monday announced an
>      alliance to promote high-speed Internet links over ordinary phone
>      lines.
>      
>      Telephone companies banded together and sought support from the
>      high-tech giants to ward off a competing scheme for faster Internet
>      connections relying on cable television wires.
>      
>      The phone group said it will offer the International
>      Telecommunications Union, which sets industry standards, a uniform
>      method of connecting to the Internet using "asymmetric digital
>      subscriber line" technology, or ADSL. Equipment makers plan to offer
>      products based on the standard.


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