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[Marianne Granoff]

 From another list.  FYI


>Big ISPs back plan to wire low-income Americans, CNET
>AT&T, Verizon, the cable industry, and others team up
>with state and local governments and a nonprofit group
>with goal of bringing broadband to 500,000 more homes
>by 2010.
> 
>http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914063-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
>
>U.S. Carriers Quietly Developing IPv6 Services,
>They haven't released many details yet, but U.S.
>carriers say they are developing commercial services
>that will take advantage of IPv6, a long-anticipated
>upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol
>known as IPv4. Many of the new services are due out in
>the next year, carriers say...
>  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040208-ipv6-carrier-services.html
>
>
>Comcast Suffers Through Major Weekend Outage - Gives
>Silicon Valley blogger a call, dslreports
>As users in our Comcast forum can attest, the cable
>giant suffered through a significant 7-hour outage on
>Saturday, which took customers offline in a number of
>States, including New York, Pennsylvania, and
>Delaware. Comcast has yet to identify a cause of the
>outage, but says they're investigating. While you were
>struggling to get a hold of Comcast, Comcast was
>actually reaching out to help Silicon Valley startup
>promoter Mike Arrington, who was called by the cable
>giant after he complained about his own, California
>outage on Twitter:
> 
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Suffers-Through-Major-Weekend-Outage-93372