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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Modem Users Beware: BELL $$$
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Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 08:49:27 EDT
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I think that two-way CATV is, at present, a highly overrated
possibility for local data communications or TELCO bypass.
Since 50% of all homes now have cable out in the street, the
CATV companies are not the brash young upstarts everyone
credits them with being.  They have one heck of a lot of plant
investment.  This is an investment in plant which just wasn't
engineered for two way for one thing and for another the
AGC or level requirements for RF data units are orders of
magnitude more stringent than for TV sets.  You just can't
go 20dB and then add an amplifier.

They are in the same heavy investment category as the TELCOs
are.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					(201) 834-3759
					ariel!jlw