[ale] Cable modem - Bellsouth trial

[Keith R. Watson]

At 09:43 AM 9/4/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>   A few months ago I found a web page mentioning that Bellsouth is/was
>   having a Cable modem trial here in Atlanta. Unfortunately I don't have
>   the URL anymore, but it should show up in a metacrawler search.
>
>   I'll appreciate any information about this trial or about the
>   availability of any other low-priced high-bandwidth technology here in
>   Atlanta (ADSL, Satellite, etc.). Speaking about which, does anybody know
>   the pricing of Frame Relay?
>


The test is being run in Chamblee. I live in Chamblee, have ISDN, networks,
servers, etc. so I called Bellsouth. They called me back and told me that
the trial was coming and they would contact me to let me know if I was in
the trial area. They had a guy from a cable company call me and get my
address and said that he would call me back. He didn't. I later found out
that they canvased the trial area and provided literature and a preview
video tape of what it would be like. If you didn't get this material you are
not in the trial area.

I later heard again (can't remember where) that they were going to expand
the test area. I haven't been contacted. The only place that I have found
any information about it is at (search word used Chamblee)

http://www.bellsouthcorp.com/headlines/bell_releases/96/may/31-1.html

http://www.bsf.org/headlines/bell_releases/96/feb/RELEAS28.html

http://www.bellsouthcorp.com/investor/bellnews/coach.html

http://www.bellsouth.com/bbs/consultant/news5.html

http://www.bellsouth.com/bbs/consultant/news6.html


hope you have more luck than I did,
keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Computer Services Specialist IV        Georgia Institute of Technology
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836