Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10713)	6/7/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Ron Dior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

<<If this case holds, even if it emboldens others across the country to follow suit, I don't see anything happening materially for quite some time. I've been involved to some extent with other groundbreaking decisions which have opened up other venues where T and the ILECs have been a party, and I can tell you that there is no end to the stonewalling, foot dragging and mutually agreed upon decisions that must be reached, to the smallest levels of minutiae, before the RF can ever meet the photon. Without such detail, service level agreements could never take hold, much less service creation in the first place.>> Frank, I would have to agree that this thing will be a LONG LONG process if it happens. Meanwhile what happens to the infrastructer of the internet? Do cable companies push to upgrade their systems with so many uncertainties ahead? Do other technologies such a DSL push harder to make their medium more accessible? What about all the possible lawsuits that will form, from others getting the short end of the stick, just holding up the process even longer. This just looks bad to me, for all involved. The race is what makes the technology move ahead making auto's faster and faster. With no race, their will be no advancements. Open access will be turning the focus on cable and cable access as opposed to technological advances for the internet. The lawyers and cable companies will get rich, the net companies will lose profits, technological advances will slow, and the consumer will pay the final price. I still don't like it...... Ron Dior