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SBC to give PCs to internet customers

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SBC Communications will offer a 566-megaherz Compaq Presario personal computer with Intel Celeron, CD-ROM and 10-gigabyte hard drive to customers who sign up for the company's digital subscriber line for 2 years. Customers will pay $198 shipping charge and about $60 per month for the service, available in California, Oklahoma, Texas and 3 other states. SBC has been the target of installation problems as they attempt to hook up about 3,500 customers a day. Smaller DSL competitors are feeling pushed out but will gain advantage when a federal "line sharing" requirement becomes law.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Marketing procedures, Computer industry, Compaq Computer Corp., CPQ, Digital Subscriber Line, DSL (Digital subscriber line), AT&T Inc., Contracts, SBC, Company marketing practices

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Cox Communications is building network that will replace use of Excite@Home

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To replace its troubled infrastructure provider, Excite@Home Corp., Cox Communications Inc. is constructing its own highspeed Internet network, and plans to migrate its 550,000 customers who use Excite@Home to the new network in 2002. Cox will keep using the Excite@Home network until its own network is complete or until Excite@Home's service is closed down, which could be as early as this week, in which case Cox's highspeed customers may lose their broadband connections for a time. The new network, currently under construction, will cost about $150 million.

Telegraph & other communications, Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Services, Internet service providers, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable television, Internet service provider, At Home Corp., ATHM, Cox Communications Inc., COX, Cable Internet, Cable Internet access

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In a race to the Web, phone upstarts grab turf

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Digital subscriber line providers like Covad Communications, North Point Communications, and Rhythms NetConnections are selling high speed data connections to businesses. Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, regional Bell companies had to allow these DSL companies space in their local exchanges to place equipment. The three companies above claim about 26,000 installed lines. Researchers show the cable companies have close to 1 mil cable modem subscribers, against 160,000 for DSL, 80% of which are Bell customers. Analysts see independent DSL services giving larger partners, like AT&T or Qwest Communications, an entry into local phone systems.

Market information - general, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Rhythms NetConnections Inc., RTHM, Covad Communications Group Inc., COVD, NorthPoint Communications Holdings Inc., NPNT

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