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SBC Communications Hopes to Bring High-Speed Internet Access to North Texas.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2000 by Bajaj, Vikas
Aug. 24--New telecommunications equipment being tested in Dallas could bring high-speed Internet access to virtually every Southwestern Bell customer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area within two years, company officials said Wednesday.
SBC Communications, the telephone company's San Antonio-based parent, plans to install Broadband Gateways, which include fiber optics and transmission equipment, in neighborhoods that are more than the old standard of
17,500 feet, or 3.3 miles, from its central offices. Homes and businesses farther away can't get digital subscriber line services at present.
"Distance is probably the biggest Achilles' heel of DSL technology," said Kathie Hackler, an analyst at research firm Dataquest in San Jose, Calif. "So if they...
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