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There is a news on today's news paper "The
Australian" about 1Gbps wireless. Here is some of the
news:

"Researchers at the University of Queensland are investigating
new methods of using satellites to beam the Internet
into homes at pseeds of up to 1Gbps.
The research
is part of a major European Space Agency project,
being carried out in conjunction with the giant
Microsoft-Boieing-Motorola-Carnet-Sky Internet consortium.

The university work
will be headed by computer science and electrical
engineering lecturer Dr.Mikhail Cherniakov.
............"

yet? Look at the news "Optus sitting on $9bn network"

http://www.news.com.au/index.asp?URL=/finance/4261126.htm

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990601/ca_broadco_1.html

When a stock pays a cash dividend, the stock
price is reduced by the amount of the dividend. The
market may move the price up from there, but make no
mistake about it, the dividend is not free money. The day
the stock goes ex dividend it will open $12 dollars
below the prior close, unless demand for the stock
pushes up the bid, but I doubt it will push it that
much.

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2242118,00.html

JCA.

How it can really spell profit for 8...http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/redherring/9904/09/redherring_telocity/

JCA.

trades ex-dividend, but, remember, before the
announcement, the stock was trading at about 28 1/2 and it has
not shown an increase of 12 dollars from there. I
firmly believe that ex-dividend it may drop maybe about
6 points, which will be still good........

It is true that they will pay out big $ as
dividend but the share price will be reduced by the amount
of distribution. The following is extracted from one
of their press releases:

"On the ex-dividend
date, the price of the
Company's shares is expected
to decrease by the amount of the
distribution."

{no easy money here}

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999--Excel
Switching Corporation (NASDAQ:XLSW - news), a leading
provider of open voice and data switching platforms for
telecommunications networks worldwide, will present strategies that
highlight how developers can offer real-world Internet
Protocol (IP) telephony applications on an open
standards-based platform at SUPERCOMM '99 (Booth #7419). Along
with the presentation, Excel will showcase its EXS
Media Gateway, a carrier-class IP telephony media
gateway, supporting up to 3,840 VoIP ports in a single
cabinet.
With the combination of the EXS platform and
Excel application
development partners' enhanced
services, carriers and service providers can IP-enable
their telecom networks to deliver new,
revenue-generating customer services such as unified messaging,
IP-based conferencing, operator services and e-commerce
all on one open, scalable, and flexible network
platform.

VDAC is a modular IP packet engine
interface card which can provide 160 channels of VoIP over
dual 100MB Ethernet interfaces when inserted into
Excel's carrier class EXS platform. Implemented with
Excel's flexible and patented Programmable Protocol
Language (PPL) Technology to customize PSTN protocols and
offer unmatched flexibility to next generation IP
networks, the VDAC card is designed with the latest
generation Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), microprocessors
and integrated components to offer future-proof IP
vocoding algorithms and IP protocol support.