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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Martin Muldoon who wrote (9080)	7/1/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Sleeper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

AOL wants to be the big fish in the big pond, and the only way to do that is to eat the little fish! Beware a Charter alliance with AOL; AOL is not going to let GNET have revenues AOL can compete for and receive. Down the road there will probably room for everyone on the Broadband highway, but until the rules of the road get established, I would just as soon see AOL parked in a "no parking" zone. Sleeper

To: Martin Muldoon who wrote (9080)	7/1/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

I think a deal with AOL would be huge! Their customer base is somewhere around 20MM and growing. ... GNET would benefit from the additional advertising and ecommerce revenue the AOLer's would bring. Not on the cable-modem end of things. If AOL were to become an ISP on Charter systems, then all of the default settings would be to AOL sites. A GNET site would be just another destination on the internet for such Charter-AOL users. Even if AOL were the ISP for computer users, it's still possible -- even likely -- that GNET channels would become default locations for interactive TV users. That's likely to become an important market, but it doesn't benefit at all from having AOL on the system over on the cable modem side.