MacWEEK reports that Global Village has shipped its desktop Macintosh and Windows modems in separate K56flex and x2 versions. Global Village has a press release . Global Village has created place holder pages for future firmware updates, which I've added to the firmware updates page. O'Grady's PowerPage has an advance press release . Logicode has extended their 56K upgrade offer through June 30, 1997.
Details are on our upgrade page .
Telebit and ITK Telecommunications AG of Germany are merging. ITK has a press release . May 22 PC World has a story about 56K modems. In their lab tests , x2 modems were about 1.7 times faster than 28.8 modems when transmitting a variety of file types. Also of interest are the 56K plans for some of the nation's largest service providers .