I don't have to go to work today so I spent couple of hours in the local bookstore. I found a lot of coverage of broadband internet access:
From Forbes Magazine, it has an article about the cyber merger. From
the article, it implies that T/TCI/ATHM/EXCIT merger is the best alliance. This is the only alliance that commands both access and contents. On the other hand, AOL/Netscape alliance or Yahoo/Geocity alliance only commands contents, but have no control on the access. Therefore, T's alliance holds the best position to win the overal war, not just battles.
From Windows magazine published by CMP, it discussed a dozen new technological trend and sort out which one is HOT and which one is HYPE. Cable modem is the one in the hot list. Wireless internet is the one in the hype list.
From PC World magazine, it has a front page article about High speed web access. And it has very favorable comments about @Home.
It says that @Home will grow like 1000% per year for the next few years. However, the magazine doesn't think the dialup modem will be be kicked out of the door so quickly. It projects in 2002, 80% users will still use dialup. I kinda don't agree. But who knows.
PC World also compared the major ISPs, it voted AT&T's WorldNet as the number one best ISP in the market. AOL is at near the end of the list. Considering World Net will soon combine with @Home, this is encouraging.
My general impression is that broadband access, especially cable, has caught the eyes of the media. Just tremenduous publicity and favorable comentaries lately. All claiming 1999 as the year of broadband. |
