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To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (11838)	6/28/1999
From: PAL	Respond to of 29970

VG, please provide the source of that article. TIA Paul

To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (11838)	6/28/1999 5:47:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Where did you get the idea that Excite@Home is a household name? They are unknown to Joe Q Public who knows AOL for sure. Your assumption is similar to the AMD and INTEL public recognition differences.

To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (11838)	6/28/1999 7:45:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Victoria Gate, MD., Yesterday we had a BBQ which my 14 year old invited a number of HS guests to. I did a little sampling at the table and found that four out of five had AOL accounts, and the fifth was coming on line this week. Two of them had parents whose interests and other pursuits caused them to have a second account with someone else, but the AOL account was "theirs" in those cases. Namely, it belonged to the kids. You guessed it, the fifth in my sample will be going on line with AOL. Of course, I couldn't let a peaceful dinner go by without introducing some additional q and a, much to the chagrin and squirming of my daughter, notwithstanding. I found that none of them held out any anxieties over not having cable modem access, nor did they understand why I was grilling them in the first place. Seems that the grid lock on the dialups is a matter of history for them, because logging in nowadays is nowhere near the grief that it was early last year (thanks to the $300MM to half billion upgrade performed by AOL at that time). These young folks are quite content with the service they are using, in the modality they are using it, namely that of chat and gif exchanges. Granted, this was not exactly what one would call a conclusive survey, and the sampling method could be more scientific, but there is a message in here somewhere. Comments? Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (11838)	6/28/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: AmericanVoter	Respond to of 29970

"However, in the short-term, both DSL and DirecTV is still being very slowly deployed, and without offering cable access, this would most likely stun AOL's growth in the next couple or few years." Dr. Victoria, I don't know who wrote this, but IDC's projections are that xDSL's growth will outpace cable in the next 5 to 7 years as it's easier and less expensive to deploy... and, current cable subscribers in the US do not add up to 2 M compared with AOL's 17M subscribers and are growing at about 1M/month... I don't know about you, but I am sticking with AOL for a while... best regards amein