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To: Bob Kimball who wrote (23724)	6/23/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: rodney beasley	Respond to of 41369

Case needs to go ahead cuts some deals,,make a stake in cable and get the $h*% over with imo,,thats all i keep hearing,,satellite isnt going to cut it,,i tried to get satellite hear,,asked about direct pc,sales guy says they didnt offer,,anyway no dish,,too many trees,,anyway they havent did crap w direstpc anyway ,,hughes said that,,i say get on board now,this handheld crap not going to fly imo,,i can call on my digital cell and get quotes,,last thing i need to do is check my mail on raod,,too busy getting beeps and call already,,im long AOL,too long almost,,this handheld stuff and this dish stuff starting to piss me off,,i want Case to drop a freakin bombshell on the industry that will turn it on it rear and just blow us all away,,i still think he has something bigger than this for us,,does anyone share this view??

To: Bob Kimball who wrote (23724)	6/23/1999 6:30:00 AM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

Bob IMO this type of digital wireless Internet will be the first to roll out and in fact already is. It will have no problems with mother nature. It will be marketed to small businesses and the mobile professional. Message 10226961 Message 10226582 My Hughes DSS dish, AOL's new partner, rarely has transmission problems. It is much more reliable then dialing into an ISP that gives you the occasional busy signal. I will gladly switch to a Hughes modem connection when made available. This will be marketed towards the home owner. --------------------- AOL, Hughes link up to challenge cable United Press International - June 22, 1999 12:28 Jump to first matched term LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) - Challenging the cable TV industry's hopes to dominate the market for high-speed Internet to the home, America Online says it will invest $1.5 billion in Hughes Electronics, the Los Angeles Times reports. The deal will widen the choices available in the potentially huge consumer market for high-seed Internet service and interactive television. Cable companies are leading the development of such services, but have made them available to only a few hundred thousand customers. Local telephone companies are rolling out their own packages even more slowly. Companies from AT&T to Microsoft have been making multibillion-dollar investments in cable TV operators on the expectation that cable lines will eventually become the leading distribution channel for entertainment-on-demand, electronic commerce and even local and long- distance telephone services. The agreement between AOL and DirecTV is designed to strengthen each company's role in this fast-evolving landscape. It will allow them to capitalize on AOL's 16 million customers and DirecTV's 7 million TV subscribers to jointly market new services. These include AOL-Plus, which will provide high-speed connections over satellite, and AOL TV for such television-based functions as interactive shopping, Web surfing, e-mail and electronic chat, which are more commonly performed over the Internet. Vendit