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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (29030)	8/9/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) of 41369

jhg_in_kc I think both ATT and AOL have seen the futility of their past pursuits. AOL has seen its capitalization erode and ATT has seen city municipalities stepping in and mandating their business. All for what? Excite@Home? Is Excite@Home worth that much to ATT that they can afford to exclude the potential of 17 million subscribers from their business model. Is Excite@Home so good with content that they can steal 17 million subscribers from AOL? On the other hand, does AOL think that they can hold onto "all" the 17 million eyeballs without broadband? So ATT wants to bargain with AOL from a position of strength by cozying upto Excite@Home (should explain their statement today an Excite@Home). AOL on the other hand wants to position itself on the strength of its membership and DSL offering (competition to broadband). So let the titans talk. When all is said and done, AOL will have broadband, Excite probably will get sold to Yahoo, and @Home will continue to do what it does best namely lay the cables, provide specialized cable modem hardware for its new parent ATT. IMHO

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