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To: gpowell who wrote (14516)	8/14/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: E. Davies	of 29970

I'm almost afraid to ask this question yet again, but it is pertinant to your three tier model. What is an ISP (User World Provider) anyway? What value do they bring? I can reach any e-mail provider or home page provider through its url. I dont have to be connected through that ISP. Those services are available for free anyhow. Is an ISP content? Nope- you can get that with the URL too. SI and thestreet.com are not ISP's. AOL content is available for $9.95 already, never forget that. Is an ISP nothing more than customer service? Going to Earthlink for customer service for a AT&T<->@home<->Earthlink connection isnt going to do much good is it? Another question. If under your model the MSO sets the tiering and the prices where is the competition? The multiple ISP's cannot compete on price and since they have to share the same wires they cant compete on performance either. What was the point again? Eric

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