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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4172)	6/14/1999 2:23:00 PM
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Wwould you ad dress this dailynews.yahoo.com GTE, AOL Say Tests Show Open Cable Systems Work: condensed While primarily a local phone company with a large Internet services businesses, GTE also owns cable systems in Florida and California. Stamford, Conn.-based GTE has agreed to be acquired by U.S. local phone giant Bell Atlantic Corp. (NYSE:BEL - news) Working with several different equipment vendors and ''off-the-shelf'' systems, GTE said it made changes to the company's cable network backbone to allow competing Internet service providers to have direct access to their customers. The systems will work whether the cable system is analog or digital, and with all varieties of cable modems, it said. ''Our solution requires a single, one-time investment of $60,000 to give 80,000 customers a choice of ISPs,'' Rick Wilson, president of GTE's Media Ventures unit. That translates into an investment of less than $1 per potential customer that cable operators would have to make to upgrade their systems in order to allow competition, he said.