Re: Internet access box

[Penio Penev <penev@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Andrew Sieber wrote:

> For those of you who haven't noticed it yet, read this, at Jeff's web
> site:
> 
> http://www.dnai.com/~jfox/itvpress.html
> 
> Impressive.  I didn't realize that the price for the box was going to be
> that low.

That's below the retail price for an external v.34 modem.

Given that the box will have a modem, I'd suspect that either

A) it will be at most 28.8 one, or

B) it is not included in the price cited, or

C) this is not a retail price, but rather a wholesale price. 


Given that to manufacture the box will cost about the same as an external
modem, I believe that the price cannot be brought down much more below
that of an external modem -- about $85 for an external v.34(bis) at NECX
as the minimum.


Well, unless Chuck has come up with a clever way to make a modem more
cheaply than Boca does, that it.

But then, iTV would be selling modems also -- or may be they are :-)


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