Rogers promises

WEB SURFERS will be big beneficiaries if Rogers”
bid to acquire Shaw Cable's business on the North
Shore is approved.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

_ According to Rogers general manager for B.C. Glenn
-Wong, Internet users will be able to access and cruise the
internet, at blazing speed thanks to the company’s high-tech
fibre-optic systems. —.

One of the Intermet’s major bug-bears is the slow pace of
accessing new sites and downloading files. The common speed
champion is the 28,800 bits per second modem that operates
through the telephone lines.

However, with Rogers Wave service, the slowest data will be
transferred ut 500,000 bits per second, said Wong, and in 1997
that could be upped to | million bits a second. Eventually, CD-
quality.sound and full action video. will be available over the
Internet using Rogers Wave technology, said Wong.

“That’s what makes it so exciting,” said Wong. “It will bring
a whole new interest level to the Internet.”

An Intemet provider will not be necessary, because your
computer will be on-line constantly, said Wong.

Wong said Rogers expects to spend $30 million upgrading
Shaw's cable network over the next couple of years. The com-

any hopes to offer Rogers Wave to local cable customers in
1997, “but it fully depends on what the state of their system is,”
said Wong.

Final consumer prices have not been determined yet, but an
unlimited service is now being offered in Ontario at under $50
a month, said Wong,

Last year, Rogers and Shaw announced a swap of assets that

" would See Rogers. acquire cable television systems including

_ the one serving the North Shore, In return, Shaw would receive
Rogers, holdings in two specialty channels and a Calgary tele-

~ vision station.

- .|. The CRTC is expected to make a decision on the Rogers-
‘ Shaw application this summer, said Wong.

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WAITS FOR Internet connections may shorten if a
Rogers swap with Shaw is approved.

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