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To: polarisnh who wrote (12399)	7/14/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 29970

If all of these local governments take away all of the pricing advantages of being the franchisee then the CATV operators might as well pick up their toys and go home! I think you need to understand the real issue to ATHM here. In a properly functioning "open" access environment (if there ever could be one) the CATV operater gets the same $/month from say AOL as it does from ATHM. What does for example Comcast lose in this? Only that their stock in ATHM might not be as valuable. Might even be more valuable because open access would allow @home into TWX territory for example. Not a big factor in the whole picture. Remember that the CATV operator is not the ISP anyway. They just own some fraction of it. You could easily argue that the MSO would be better off under a functioning open access system. Very likely more ISP's would bring in more customers to broadband and therefore more cash for the MSO. The real problem with "open" access is that I don't see how it can be implemented in a way that does not overwhelm the rollout of cable and delay it for a minimum of 1-2 years. Eric