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To: E. Davies who wrote (11161)	6/13/1999 5:35:00 AM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Cable on front line of broadband war Message 10096617 A pretty thorough article as these things go. Heres a clip I find interesting (I agree with TJ on all points): *** AT&T and Excite@Home counters that open access lets AOL and others take advantage of a system the ISPs ignored for the last several years. "Now that they see that it works, that they see that it's a threat, they want a free ride," said Ted Jermoluk, Excite@Home's CEO. "What the ISPs are actually asking for is a handout to make up for their lack of vision... for a bad business plan." Jermoluk also accuses AOL, GTE and others of even more sinister motivations. He claims that AOL and the ISPs are trying to stall cable Internet connections by forcing a technological traffic jam on the system with open ISP access, the better to let them develop other broadband alternatives, including an AOL partnership with local telephone systems to bring DSL service to its subscribers. GTE's Riposa counters that the technology exists "off the shelf" to let other ISPs access AT&T's system. Jermoluk laughs at that assertion. "The system just isn't there to handle something like that," said Jermoluk. "We don't really know how to make it all work, and we've been at this for five years."