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To: E. Graphs who wrote (12889)7/23/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: A. Robbins  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 29970
 
O.K. Who's been leaning on this stock? It's much bigger than the open access issue (I know uncertainty is disasterous to stock prices- great opportunity to spread fear). Open access has been restricted to a few minor regions and the FCC has said they WILL NOT ALLOW anything which would slow down the deployment of broadband choices to the masses, so the issue is entirely mute (and those who professionally work in the business know the Open Net never had a chance against T in Washington).

Having said that WHO IS LEANING ON THE STOCK?. Day traders?, retail?- Hardly, they don't do enough business. This is institutional stock price manipulation! Either by insider initial investors who have so much profit in the stock that they don't care about selling at $55 or $45 as long as they unload cheap shares, or major institutions who feel they can drive the price low enough to accumulate large long positions at favorable prices. (These are the same guys who drove the price down for b.s. reasons and will soon be going long in the face of an improving long term view). The point of my message is that these short sellers will be done soon, and this stock will take off on the merits that they provide a superior service which people want! (my brother, and father both have it and would never go back to dial up EVER!..Incidently my dad could not turn on a computer a year ago- started with AOL and now has progressed to ATHM and would pay 2 times the price for ATHM to listen to college hoops live and ungarbled. So much for the the the @home experience to be only appreciated by internet addicts!) If you believe in this stock, stay the course and I feel you will be rewarded and make your own decisions about the future of the stock. Try not to be persuaded by all the internet news sources because you don't know who they sleep with at night! (Ever notice how few internet news services report favorable articles regarding ATHM? Open Net prevails in Florida and it's everywhere, Kennard supports unregulated internet and you have to dig to find it.) Sorry for rambling on but had a few beers and am a bit frustrated.

Long ATHM.



To: E. Graphs who wrote (12889)7/23/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: A. Robbins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29970
 
O.K. Who's been leaning on this stock? It's much bigger than the open access issue (I know uncertainty is disasterous to stock prices- great opportunity to spread fear). Open access has been restricted to a few minor regions and the FCC has said they WILL NOT ALLOW anything which would slow down the deployment of broadband choices to the masses, so the issue is entirely mute (and those who professionally work in the business know the Open Net never had a chance against T in Washington).

Having said that WHO IS LEANING ON THE STOCK?. Day traders?, retail?- Hardly, they don't do enough business. This is institutional stock price manipulation! Either by insider initial investors who have so much profit in the stock that they don't care about selling at $55 or $45 as long as they unload cheap shares, or major institutions who feel they can drive the price low enough to accumulate large long positions at favorable prices. (These are the same guys who drove the price down for b.s. reasons and will soon be going long in the face of an improving long term view).

The point of my message is that these short sellers will be done soon, and this stock will take off on the merits that they provide a superior service which people want! (my brother and father both have it and would never go back to dial up EVER!..Incidently my dad could not turn on a computer a year ago- started with AOL and now has progressed to ATHM and would pay 2 times the price for ATHM to listen to college hoops live and ungarbled. So much for the @home experience to be only appreciated by internet addicts!) If you believe in this stock, stay the course and I feel you will be rewarded and make your own decisions about the future of the stock. Try not to be persuaded by all the internet news sources because you don't know who they sleep with at night! (Ever notice how few internet news services report favorable articles regarding ATHM? Open Net prevails in Florida and it's everywhere, Kennard supports unregulated internet and you have to dig to find it.) Sorry for rambling on but had a few beers and am a bit frustrated.

Long ATHM.



To: E. Graphs who wrote (12889)7/23/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: E. Graphs  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29970
 
Excite@Home Welcomes GTE to Competitive Broadband Market

biz.yahoo.com

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is issued by Excite@Home:

Excite@Home welcomes the announcement that GTE is cutting its rate for its bundled broadband offering by 17%. While we're happy for consumers, we're sure GTE isn't happy that they had to cut rates in response to cable's broadband offerings.

This is further evidence, which all analysts agree, of the open, competitive marketplace in broadband. A market that produces 17% rate cuts does not need government micromanagement. No wonder GTE is desperately spending millions of dollars on lobbyists to slow competition.

Two additional points, however, are worth noting. First, Excite@Home still costs approximately 20% less in most areas.

Second, Excite@Home still has much better service. Scoring an 8.6 on a 10 point scale in PC Magazine's annual readers survey, the company's @Home service outpaced AOL, GTE, Mindspring, CompuServe and other leading ISPs, on overall service satisfaction. In addition, the @Home service was the number one rated ISP for connection speeds, connection reliability, and overall connections during the day Government officials who really want to help consumers will tell GTE to take the millions they are spending on lobbyists in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities and spend it on customer service instead.