Pacific Bell today officially announced its Internet dial-up access service for
the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and Los Angeles, regions that
comprise about 75 percent of the telephone company’s residential customer base.
Service to Stockton and Fresno is scheduled for this summer and the company
projects that it will offer service to about 90 percent of all California
residential and small business users by early 1997.

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Not satisfied with just providing dial-up Internet access, AT&T has launched a
Web-hosting service for businesses and is even considering offering Internet
telephony through its WorldNet service.

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