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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
RACE 389.02+1.5%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: Guth who wrote (32792)10/4/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (3) of 33268
 
Re: Dialup vs. Broadband

I have to disagree with you there. Even though I've been using a cable modem for the past two years and would never go back, I still have to keep a dialup service as backup because cable just isn't reliable enough yet to serve as one's only ISP. It will also be many years before BB is sufficiently pervasive that it will account for even half of retail ISP accounts. The potential market for OnePhoneLine is thus certainly there.

The tech support question is paramount, however. It's got to be simple enough that AOL, MSN, and other major ISPs could bundle this with their offerings at little or no additional tech support costs. It's also clear that RACE would be crazy to try to roll out a new national ISP at this late date--talk about cutthroat markets needing deep pockets. My assumption is that OnePhoneLine.net will serve only as a field test for the technology and that RACE will use it to try to sell the concept to other ISPs. Obviously if they can do that then they may finally have found a real market for BT since it's pretty clear that the original target corporate market is still having trouble getting off the ground 32 months after BT was "launched".
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