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To: GraceZ who wrote (9631)	7/16/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: PatrickMark	Respond to of 28311

Many thanks for your comments, Grace. I'll dig deeper into the ATHM thread. I remember reading about the gradual performance increases due to TCI(ATHM)/Excite@Home caching. The stated purpose was to alleviate "neighborhood hub" bottlenecks, but I'm sure there's also an intent to lock users in via connection speed that disappears when you stray from the net within a net. All these subtle (or not-so-subtle) technological tricks reinforce my belief that the MSO's are placing a tremendous economic importance on bundling services while at the same time publicly declaring how "open" they are in order to avoid regulation. PM