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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?

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To: Jason Cogan who wrote (8822)3/15/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Dermot Burke   of 13594
 
Jason >>
Also, does the MCI/WCOM relationship seem puzzling to anyone else but
me? Isn't AOL now beholden to a competitor for the very connections
that are it's lifeblood? >>

Well maybe it has taken a long time to get to this point but now we finally have: A phone company 'bundling ' long distance service with cheaper dial-up -$14.95--to the web.

A cynic might simply call this hedging by MCI-Worldcom. They get the AOL brokered dialup business plus the direct relationship with WWW customers. Sprint, of course has 30% of the very able direct dialup service earthlink.net
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