IQ News: At E3, Gamers Defy Internet Convention

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BY ANYA SACHAROW





Microsoft’s investment in Comcast may have the software community focused (again) on cable modems, but at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Atlanta, low-bandwidth telephone access remained the reality. ‘Three to five years from now I can’t think of a scenario where the overwhelming majority of local access won’t be local phone line systems,’ said Andy Grove, chief executive of Intel Corp., during a press briefing in Atlanta.





The fact that most Internet users are still accessing the Web through low-bandwidth phone lines is a hurdle in online electronic entertainment.













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