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To: Carolyn who wrote (4115)	6/9/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

No flames here Carolyn--I think you're absolutely right: at the end of the day with the current state of broadband roll-out to the home, it is very much a 'take what you can get' kind of deal. In San Francisco, there seem to be a flood of DSL vendors pounding the streets and only TCI in the cable category. Elsewhere, cable seems to be getting the harder sell. I know happy and unhappy campers on both sides. My question to Bernard however dealt with home networking as in: linking multiple PCs, and specifically the kind of wire he thought best INSIDE the house versus the type of pipe coming from the OUTSIDE. Kind regards, Mike Doyle

To: Carolyn who wrote (4115)	6/9/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Carolyn, Far from flaming you, I actually want to praise you for entering the fray with a concise, thoughtful and practical view of service to the home. Sometimes the denizens of this thread are prone to vastly quixotic and ethereal speculations and its nice to look at things from a dollars and cents perspective as well. You've got it right, at the end of the day, all the last mile solutions must stand up to the test of the market. And I will guarantee you that if Technology A costs $30/mo. and Technology B costs $50/mo for slightly better service, then B will disappear in short order. The name of the game for residential bandwidth providers is commoditization. The guy with the best cookie cutter, sold on the cheap, wins the war. Ciao, Ry