LIVINGSTON, NJ.  September 9, 1993:  The recent court ruling giving Bell
Atlantic and the other RBOCs the green light to move full steam ahead into
video programming will bring the new information highway and its attendant
mass market for multimedia computing just a little closer to reality.  For
multimedia computing applications, wireless data personal communicators,
and other aspects of  computing's next wave to become mass market
phenomena, major changes must take place in local telecommunications
capability. According to recent studies by Insight Research Corp., today's
telecommunications landscape is about to be rocked by a series of
changes-changes that will transcend traditional industry boundaries and
cross technologies as never before.

Insight's research suggests that the fast-packet ATM-based national
information highway will be only as effective as local voice and data
transport.  One study, _Competition in the Local Loop: Telcos, Cable TV, &
Wireless in the Emerging Telecommunications Network 1993-1998_, puts forth
several possible scenarios for future competition among the RBOCs,
competitive access providers, cable TV operators, and wireless services
for market share of voice, data, and video. It takes the bottom-up view
that the technological and market changes on the local level are the ones
that will spur developments in telecommunications throughout the decade.

The other study,  _Network Topologies for Future Telecommunications
Services, TVs, Telephones & Change in Telecommunications Networks
1993-2000_,  posits that consumer demand for new entertainment TV services
is remaking the infrastructure of the TV and telephone networks.  The huge
revenue potential of interactive TV and games is accelerating adoption of
new technology in the TV and telephone industries.  Both networks will
handle two-way, switched, wideband traffic well before the year 2000,
according to Insight, creating an extensive level of overlapping,
interconnecting, and competing capabilities.  But competition will only be
apparent in the local-distribution segments of both networks, Insight
argues.

For more information and pricing data on the two reports, please contact:

The Insight Research Corporation      (201) 605-1400 voice
354 Eisenhower Parkway                (201) 605-1440 fax
Livingston, NJ 07039

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