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To: Jing Qian who wrote (11729)	6/24/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: yihsuen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

threat to ATHM is not from the regulatory front, but from the ADSL, satellite front Legal front, T/ATHM should prevail. Satellite front, don't worry. ADSL front, most definitely. To deal with ADSL, cable TV is the key. A nicely packaged TV/Internet/Phone deal, will be very attractive to consumer. ATHM needs to scoop up every current cable TV subscriber.

To: Jing Qian who wrote (11729)	6/24/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

The FCC will be forced to de-regulate everything they regulated? Huh? The outcome of 70 years of socialism has been a total misunderstanding of what regulation is. The regulators don't even know. Somehow you have some concept of government as though it were a Soviet Union or Nazi Germany total state. Not even these two were capable of imposing their will on the people to the extent you imply although they and the US government and the public would prefer it that way. Yes, the public would prefer absolute control because individuals somehow think that is in their interest. They spent all those years in school being brainwashed into believing the glories of freedom, yet they prefer the protection of the state. Don't believe me? You said, "Fortunately our central government still have the 'judicious intelligence' that local people don't have". The state is now in the community. The community wants control, the control of socialist free access with emphasis on free and the FCC is entirely powerless to stop it. This is why Att has blundered by reacting to Portland with legal confrontation. You think Armstrong is so clever, but Sun Tzu would say he's a fool. Do not confront where there is no need to confront. If the community wants bread and circuses, that's what they will have. The only way to survive in this arena is to adapt to it and give the people what they think they want. So, back on the Edsel bandwagon? Maybe you should consider hedging and take a look at a DSL company called NASC. Wait until after the crash because then you should be able to pick it up for a song.