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Re: large scale xDSL deployment?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon May 12 12:19:44 1997

Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 08:49:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Reply-To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970511213817.11967D-100000@ns.pan-tex.net>

On Sun, 11 May 1997, Douglas R. Locke wrote:

> At the TISPA meeting in March, if I recall correctly, a guy from PairGain 
> claimed a large installation in Chicago and one somewhere in Canada.

SaskTel in Saskatchewan was one of the first companies anywhere to offer 
xDSL Internet access. There's not much info here
http://www.1st-and-main.com/doc/hi_speed/pressframe.html
but there is a contact name and you can see how they are marketing it.

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com

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