Verizon Online began offering new DSL customers a full rebate on the $99.95 price of a new wireless router. Verizon Online DSL comes with an MSN Premium Internet package, which now includes the ability to view more than 250 baseball games a month online, MSN Encarta Premium, MSN Money, a firewall, virus protection and a pop-up ad guard. http://www.verizon.com/
Verizon Offers Free Wireless Router to New DSL Subscribers
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Verizon. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
XO Communications built Competitive local, metro fiber and enterprise network operator. What became of it?
XO Communications brought Competitive local, metro fiber and enterprise network operator to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Verizon for US$1.8B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Verizon today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about DSL. Here is what it replaced:
AT&T Project Angel served 1997–2002. What ultimately replaced it?
AT&T Project Angel delivered home phone and broadband over fixed wireless - a rooftop antenna to a neighborhood base station - to bypass the incumbent's copper local loop entirely. Its job passed to DSL — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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