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To: DOUG H who wrote (10885)	6/9/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Jing Qian	Respond to of 29970

From TheStreet.com: ... Jim Seymour: I enjoyed your story on Portland. It tells those socialist, free-loading, tree-hugging populists in Portland that they cannot have socialist broadband access in a capitalist system. The issue here is not access to the cable pipe. The issue boils down to who controls the first page and who establishes a relationship with the customer. @Home is emulating an America Online-like (AOL:NYSE) business model, and AOL is now panicking. Wait until Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq) gets its quick link button on @Home's first page. Have any of the guys in Portland ever asked the question "How many times can I get on to the Internet once I have signed on?" You can only sign on once and then you surf from there. @Home is providing the access and content. If I don't like that content, then I'll go to AOL and pay for its content. I might pay several times for content when I want to view a site like TheStreet.com, but I only pay once for Internet access. The issue here is not Internet access; it is of who controls the first page! -- Ed Kennard (received 6/6)