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To: Aljorma who wrote (26749)	7/24/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

I am not challenging your thought processes but rather I am wanting to understand them. No one on this thread knows what or why AOL has done what it has done and is doing. Why were they slow to offer level monthly pricing as other local ISP's took away some market share in 1996? Did they and the stock price recover from this? Of course it did. AOL has great management. Aljorma I see this whole event unfolding not in sectors of ISP connection options but rather as an entire package of "if you want it we've got it" via AOL. ISP's in the US are going in different directions as to their expertise. AOL is going after the entire ball of wax at once. T celebrates a MediaOne deal........but they will only get a portion of the overall 10% of the ISP users that want cable from that massive deal. Bell Atlantic offers you DSL ISP and knows nothing about AOL's backbone......not likely as a reality. In the mean time AOL - Hughes build the ultimate cable-TV-ISP wireless network ..........that can reach the most populated areas any where in the world. AOL is not showing a negative subs growth rate. They are signing up in 1 quarter the total amount of new subs that the average local ISP has as their total sub base. We are all a little impatient but quality will rule. Vendit