Epoch Networks now offers K56flex access in approximately fifty U.S cities . Earthlink now has 800 numbers for both x2 and K56flex listed on their 56K modem page . The 800 charges are very competitive. Nationwide K56flex deployment will begin this summer, and is supposed to be completed by year-end. McRae of Viking Components wrote to say that Viking has shipped their K56flex internal ISA modem for PCs.
More information is available on the company's web page .
The units will be upgradeable to the final ITU standard, and the K56flex version will offer support for the MNP-10EC cellular protocol. The online version still shows the June issue. An Ascend press release states that Prodigy will use Ascend MAX TNT equipment to provide K56flex access. In response to last week's article on U.S. Robotics CCL files for Macintosh, Greg Scarich wrote to say that he had good results with the U.S. Robotics high speed script . It should also work, for the most part, with any USR ISDN device.