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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
>                                        
>      Internet graphic January 20, 1998
>      Web posted at: 9:21 a.m. EST (1421 GMT)
>      
>      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.
>      
>      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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