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To: FR1 who wrote (11934)	6/30/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Tell us what the average public has heard about the possibility of cable Internet access. By definition, the average public doesn't yet have Internet access. By my anecdotal (not emperical) data, the average public doesn't have a clue about about the difference between cable access and dial-up access. You (all of us) would probably be very surprised at the enormous number of people using dial-up access who don't know the benefits of cable access. Based on the lousy marketing I've seen by RoadRunner, the consumers will never learn about the advantages from RoadRunner. I hope Excite@Home does a better job. --Mike Buckley

To: FR1 who wrote (11934)	7/1/1999 7:11:00 AM
From: sunny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

The possibility of Internet access via cable in Europe: i think it's not widely known that this possibility exists. it's kind of a future vision for us but we're not that familiar with it like us-americans. there should be the first possibilities for cable access but it's not that heavily promoted yet. the only thing i know is that there are set top boxes you can buy but i am not aware of any cable internet provider. so if you take me as an example - someone who is interested in technologies (esp. internet technologies) - it's highly unlikely that there is awareness for cable internet access for more of 1% of the german population. the germans - i.e. Deutsche Telekom - are still pushing ISDN very hard so this is still the "state-of-the-art"-technology for accessing the internet. hard to face the truth but that's it. we're way behind you. another point is that the cable will be very expansive in the first step due to the lack of critical mass... concerning xdsl i think the Dt. Telekom is launching this service in the coming fall...but i'm not a 100% sure... regards sunny