Bob
IMO this type of digital wireless Internet will be the first to roll out and in fact already is. It will have no problems with mother nature. It will be marketed to small businesses and the mobile professional.
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My Hughes DSS dish, AOL's new partner, rarely has transmission problems. It is much more reliable then dialing into an ISP that gives you the occasional busy signal. I will gladly switch to a Hughes modem connection when made available. This will be marketed towards the home owner.
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AOL, Hughes link up to challenge cable
United Press International - June 22, 1999 12:28
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LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) - Challenging the cable TV industry's
hopes to dominate the market for high-speed Internet to the home,
America Online says it will invest $1.5 billion in Hughes Electronics,
the Los Angeles Times reports.
The deal will widen the choices available in the potentially huge
consumer market for high-seed Internet service and interactive
television.
Cable companies are leading the development of such services, but
have made them available to only a few hundred thousand customers.
Local telephone companies are rolling out their own packages even
more slowly.
Companies from AT&T to Microsoft have been making multibillion-dollar
investments in cable TV operators on the expectation that cable lines
will eventually become the leading distribution channel for
entertainment-on-demand, electronic commerce and even local and long-
distance telephone services.
The agreement between AOL and DirecTV is designed to strengthen each
company's role in this fast-evolving landscape. It will allow them to
capitalize on AOL's 16 million customers and DirecTV's 7 million TV
subscribers to jointly market new services.
These include AOL-Plus, which will provide high-speed connections
over satellite, and AOL TV for such television-based functions as
interactive shopping, Web surfing, e-mail and electronic chat, which are
more commonly performed over the Internet.
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