Islander99
My thinking is that cable will end up being only a small portion of how people connect to the Internet. It price along will make that the case. This was publicly stated yesterday by Jeff Sadler with First Albany.
**(AOL) is extremely well managed and has a hell of a lot of brand recognition,'' said First Albany Corp. analyst Jeff Sadler, who rates the stock a ''buy.''
High-speed Internet service such as cable probably will only appeal to a minority of Internet subscribers because it costs at least twice as much as regular phone connections, he said.
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Lets assume that cable is a big deal. AOL has access to 55% of the US households as of yesterday for high speed Internet service and this was done without AT&T.
**The Dulles, Va. company said it's partnering with Midwestern phone company Ameritech (AIT: news, msgs), connecting AOL with three regional bells that span 55 percent of the nation's households. The deal was announced on the day America Online reported solid quarterly results.
cbs.marketwatch.com
The largest new customer base for an ISP will be made and maintained from the new inexpensive, non PC Internet devices called "hand helds". AOL is aggressively going after this market now.
**Mr. Pittman continued: "Through a series of key partnerships, we dramatically advanced our 'AOL Anywhere' strategy to make AOL-branded services available on connected, non-PC devices as well as offering our services over high-speed access networks. Alliances with Bell Atlantic, SBC, Ameritech, and Hughes will enable us to offer millions of consumers across the country affordable broadband Internet access as an add-on to their near ubiquitous narrowband access. Our agreements with Hughes and other partners also are helping to drive our development of AOL TV, and soon we will be extending AOL e-mail to 3Com Palm Pilots. And we intend to make these devices a part of our global growth strategy as well."
go2net.newsalert.com
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