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Sprint plans to offer its residential customers unlimited Internet access for $19.95 a month, as the company makes a late entry into the Internet service provider (ISP) market. Sprint claims that it deliberately held back from the market because it wanted to learn from the mistakes of AT&T and MCI. Sprint plans to test its Internet Passport service with some 200,000 users to assure that its technical capacity and customer support are able to meet customer needs. The service will debut in 200 cities in late 1996, and, in addition to the flat rate, it offers occasional use at $1.50 per hour, about half the rate charged by AT&T and MCI. Sprint officials claim their service will be more profitable that those run by its rivals because Sprint has a network infrastructure in place. Sprint is already the largest US carrier of Internet traffic because it sells unused network capacity to ISPs. With its new access services, Sprint will be in direct competition with its own ISP customers.
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Eight large newspaper companies are forming an alliance with the goal of helping local newspapers move into the field of electronic publishing on the Internet. The alliance is called the New Century Network and will try to develop standards for over 100 daily newspapers to help them find readers who are increasingly likely to be getting news from a computer rather than from a printed publication. The companies in the alliance will include Advance Publications, Cox Newspapers, Gannett, Hearst, Knight-Ridder, the Washington Post, the Tribune Company and the Times Mirror Company, which together represent 123 daily newspapers. Some of these companies already offer electronic news delivery but would like to form an alliance in order to stave off competition from telephone companies and cable television service providers.
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The Internal Revenue Service has introduced one of the most useful and innovative Web sites on the Internet. Visitors to this site can download tax forms and simple explanations of tax codes. The Web site is part of the IRS' aggressive campaign to provide electronic services. Other components of the effort include a fax-on-demand server, a computer bulletin board system, Telnet and file transfer protocol services, automated telephone systems and tax documents on CD-ROM. To be viewed on screen, the tax forms require Adobe Acrobat Reader as well as a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer. The forms can also be downloaded and printed in both PCL and Postscript formats. The IRS system provides easy access to information for even beginning Web users.
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