Who are the major players??

• Bell Atlantic has announced plans for a wide deployment of ASDL in the Northeastern U.S. to both home and corporate customers. The service will first be available in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh in October, 1998, and in Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey the following month. New York City and Boston will follow in early 1999. Bell Atlantic offers what it calls Personal Infospeed DSL at speeds of 640 Kbps downstream and 90 Kbps upstream for $39.95 a month, or $59.95 a month including Internet access. Professional Infospeed offers speeds of 1.6 Mbps downstream and 90 Kbps upstream at $59.95 per month, or $109.95 per month with Internet access. Power Infospeed provides up to 7.1 Mbps downstream and 680 Kbps upstream for $109.95 per month, or $189.95 per month with Internet access. Network equipment providers are Alcatel, Globespan, and Westell. Among PC manufacturers that will support Infospeed technology are Apple Computer, Compaq, and Dell Computer.
  

  

• BellSouth is offering a splitter-based ADSL service in 30 markets beginning in August, 1998 through Network Service Provider (NSP) channels.
  

  

• US West says it plans to offer DSL service in 40 cities in the western part of the U.S. by the second quarter of 1998. About 5.5 million of the 14 million US West subscribers in cities from Denver to Fargo, North Dakota, will be within range of the service. US West plans to charge $40 a month for 256 Kbps (twice the data rate of ISDN), $65 a month for 512 Kbps, $80 a month for 768 Kbps, and $100-150 a month for service in the 1 Mbps range. US West uses CAP modulation but says they are equipped to support DMT if that becomes a standard.
  

  

• GTE Corporation has offered ADSL to 1,000 living units in Marina del Rey, California since November, 1997. Downstream data rates are up to 1.5 Mbps and upstream up to 384 Kbps. Residences are charged $99 a month.

  

• NETinc, a Canadian company, is deploying ADSL in Hamilton, Ontario, using Paradyne technology. Dowstream data rates will be up to 7 Mbps and upstream up to 1 Mbps. Service to residences will be about $50 a month, to corporations $200 a month.

  
  

• Optimum Communications is deploying both ADSL and HDSL in the Florida West Coast/Tampa area early in 1998. Downstream data rates are up to 3.2 Mbps and upstream up to 1.2 Mbps. Monthly rates are about $99 a month.

The ADSL Forum offers a much more complete List of ADSL Trials and Deployments.

Hardware Offerings

• Rockwell's Consumer DSL chipset is going into a telecommunications equipment made by Nortel. Nortel will sell the equipment to carriers and to Internet service providers and Rockwell will sell the modems through the usual retail channels. The equipment will offer a 1 Mbps data rate when available in late 1998.

  

• US Robotics (3Com) and Texas Instruments plan to deliver a hybrid modem supporting both dial-up 56 Kbps and rate adaptive ADSL (RADSL).