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To: Annette who wrote (15810)	5/8/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (4) of 41369

As a @Home subscriber, I can tell you cable access is completely and absolutely phone line FREE. It requires no dialing and checking password. It's always on, 24 hours a day. And it's lightening fast. The average speed is about 1Mbps, about 50 times faster than regular dialup access. You will never experience anything like timing out on a download or being disconnected due to long idle times. With the increased speed, you can now go to www.broadcast.com to watch movies and video clips like watching a TV. Never possible with AOL's slow speed. Sooner or later, this "Color" Internet will replace the AOL's text laden "Black&White" Internet. Before the advent of Color TV, Black and White TV was dominant. But you can't argue that the popularity of B&W TV would keep the coming of Color TV. The reason DSL will be more difficult to fly is for the following reason: 1) DSL is inherently more costly to deploy. The equipment cost more than Cable. 2) Cable's throughput is higher than DSL's. 3) DSL suffers from the 1.8 mile proximity requirement. 4) RBOCs are not commited to roll it out.

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