[mod.telecom] IBM Challenges Pac Bell's Project Victoria

CMP.WERNER@R20.UTEXAS.EDU (Werner Uhrig) (08/26/86)

[ see INFOWORLD, 86/8/26, page 3 ]

... experimental system to produce an integrated digital voice and data network
[see TELECOM back-issues] for home telephone users, has drawn fire from IBM and
severak communications vendors.

IBM charged in a complaint with the FCC that it includes Customer Premises
Equipment (CPE) which, under fivestiture ruling, baby-Bells are not allowed
to do.

A Pac-Bell spokesman said that the network does not rely on CPE ...