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Communications News, Oct, 1999

According to Allied Business Intelligence, the number of enterprise TI/E1 lines worldwide will rise from over 3.7 million in 1998 to nearly 9.4 million in 2004.... The Alliance for Telecommunications Solutions reported that the Standards Committee T1's Technical Subcommittee for wireless/mobile services and systems will establish a working group to develop standards for fixed wireless access solutions that interface with the PSTN and public packet data networks (PPDN)....

Telephia and Harris Interactive are conducting a comprehensive Internet survey of wireless subscribers in a dozen major metropolitan areas. The nationwide survey samples groups of 5,000 wireless users in metropolitan areas. For more information, see www.telephia.com ... New Paradigm Resources Group reports that the U.S. DSL and broadband access markets may represent annual service revenues of $46 billion by 2005.... GSM (global system for mobile communications) boasts 200 million subscribers worldwide. The number of GSM subscribers has doubled in the last 12 months.... Hi/fn, network security specialist, has published a pamphlet, The Magic of Public Key: Why Encryption on the Internet Really Works, that is available on the company's Web site, www.hifn.com.