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To: Phil McCrevice who wrote (13000)	7/26/1999 9:43:00 PM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

21:35 [AOL,GTE,T,ATHM] S.F. BOARD REJECTS FORCED 'OPEN ACCESS' IN HIGH-SPEED NET FRANCHISE.

To: Phil McCrevice who wrote (13000)	7/26/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Good news out of San Francisco. It shows yet again what an enlighted city that is. I'm sure those who have bashed its liberal politicians in the past few days will now see the light as well. (Yeah. Sure.) Here's an interesting story on the subject -- about how AOL's closed-system mindset can hurt them as they try to fight this lobbying battle: AOL Message Policy Seen Hurting Its Stand On Cable beta.siliconinvestor.com Highlights: America Online might back off efforts to block rival ``instant messaging' services because the actions threaten to undermine its lobbying push to get access to high-speed cable Internet lines, public policy analysts said Monday. ... ``Open is open,' said Legg Mason Precursor Group analyst Scott Cleland, who has long predicted that AOL will ultimately prevail and gain access to cable high speed Internet services. 'When you're denying consumers a choice of something, it looks bad in any case.' Online analyst Gary Arlen, president of Arlen Communications, predicted AOL's position on cable access would ultimately trump its decision to close up its instant messaging product. ... Some of AOL's supporters on the cable issue noted that cable was a regulated monopoly running on public property, as opposed to AOL's development of a software product for the unregulated Internet. But few seemed eager to enter the instant messaging fray on the record.