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To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: red_dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

That is one great idea, that you should follow up on and give your suggestion to management at @home and T.

To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 2:09:00 AM
From: Dirk Dawson	Respond to of 29970

Maybe iMacs. Can't get much easier than that! Even CompUsa guys could handle that. (if @Home gave them a cut, that is) Dirk

To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I think cost control is difficult. On initial installation of umg here in this house there were five people trying to set the system up. Many billable hours outsourced or not.

To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: David Harker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

>Currently the cable guy is spending half his time installing >software and hardware at the customer site - the subscription >rate could double if ATHM would just out source this. Not true. TCI is already outsourcing the installation of SW and NIC cards - I am a subscriber and talked at length with the guy who did that for me, during my install. He told me the name of his company, which I have forgotten, but it WAS an outsourcing arrangement. There was also a TCI guy there who only tested the cable line signal, installed a filter between the line to the computer and the other (TV-hookup) cable lines. Regarding subscription rate increases, last night on the local news they had a story about @Home and how it is becoming popular here (Rochester, MN). In a city of 60-70k, they have 1,000 subs in 6 months. They started out doing 40 installs per week, then upped it to 80, and now to 100. Their install people are working in shifts so they are doing installs 16 hours per day. They interviewed a local cable guy for all that info - basic conclusion is they are absolutely swamped. A partner of TCI (Bresnan) is the local cable Co, was TCI until a few months ago. My connection has been flawless - always there.

To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: yihsuen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Installing the NIC and cable modem is no harder than any other PC related installations The USB version of cable modem should be available around this time now. Ethernet should be built in the box, which means you don't need to open your PC - truly plug and play. Intel has a motherboard with build in Ethernet available for quite a while, but they don't target consumer market, mostly in embedded market (ie, inside a big copier/printer machine), I don't know why. Maybe they just want to have a little mercy on 3COM.

To: gpowell who wrote (11656)	6/23/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Currently the cable guy is spending half his time installing software and hardware at the customer site - the subscription rate could double if ATHM would just out source this. Let the cable guys concentrate on upgrading the cable. In Fairfax County, Virgina, a suburb of Washington, D. C., RoadRunner outsources everything. The subcontractor sends two people. One is a specialist with the cable, drilling holes in the side of the house, etc. The other is a specialist with RoadRunner, installing the software, the modem and the card. --Mike Buckley