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echo: aust_modem
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Arthur Marsh
date: 1997-03-08 04:29:10
subject: Telstra/Motorola 56k announcement

On Wed 05 Mar at 06:41 Bill Grimsley (3:640/305.9{at}fidonet) wrote to Russell Brooks:

 BG> I'd like to, but I simply can't see x2 taking off in a big 
 BG> way in Oz when you consider that USRs would realistically 
 BG> account for perhaps less than 10% of the total installed 
 BG> base of ISP modems, and I doubt that all of those will be 
 BG> upgraded to (or replaced with) x2-capability anyway.  This 
 BG> is probably one occasion where it will be advantageous to be 
 BG> running Rockwell-based modems, and let's face it, within a 
 BG> year or two, they'll both be obsolete anyway...

But Microplex was announced as an ISP that would be supporting X2.

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