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Intel, MS, & Compaq to boost Inet access x30 w/ new modem [CNN]
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> REPORT: VENTURE PROMISES SPEEDIER INTERNET ACCESS
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> Internet graphic January 20, 1998
> Web posted at: 9:21 a.m. EST (1421 GMT)
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> NEW YORK (AP) -- Lightning-quick Internet access is in the works
> under a reported new venture between three titans of the computer
> industry and most local telephone companies.
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> Executives at Intel, Compaq Computer and Microsoft said in The New
> York Times on Tuesday that they want to develop a new type of
> personal computer modem that would allow access to World Wide Web
> pages at speeds 30 times faster than the usual several seconds to
> minutes it now takes.
>
> Perhaps more important, the product would plug into normal telephone
> lines, which would remain connected to the outside world.
> Consequently, users would not need to dial a service and could
> conduct normal voice conversations over the same line, the Times
> said.
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