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To: Cooney1 who wrote (22018)	6/14/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Crystal ball	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

No doubt an OPENROUTER (OPEN). I agree this helps AOL, free cable for everyone! They have to share the bandwidth, the Courts will do it for one simple reason, they built it too soon and we came too soon by the truckload, we are flooding the internet, adn they have to make room for all of us, and this is the only way, to open up every kind of bandwidth out there, that's why the Military and Universities are right now building a separate Internet, to maintain dedicated top speed, therefore the 1% GDP ($301 t0 $350 BILLION E-Commerce last year) has to be put somewhere, allowed access somewhere, AOL gets a free benefit here, since it did not have to pay (or get fenced out) by TCI and AT&T etc for the nice new Optic fiber etc they built for us. I am, Truly yours, -Crystal ball

To: Cooney1 who wrote (22018)	6/14/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: JB2	Respond to of 41369

<Earlier this month a federal court ruling ruled that Portland OR can require AT&T to open its cable lines to competing ISP's> Actually that was about a week ago, and that was a preliminary ruling, not a final one by any means. As a Portland resident, AT&T customer, and a practical skeptic of the current Portland city council, I think AT&T may win this one. To think that Portland city council has the teeth to enforce such a sweeping command is laughable. The council spokesman was just looking for PR by taking this stand, and he got it, and that's about all there is to it. Besides, this is moot. Wireless will rule sooner or later.