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Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (13078)	7/29/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

I honestly feel that @Home service has not done well to general populace due to its higher monthly charge. Here in Fremont the membership rate remain under 3% (6000 total subscribers here out of 220K residences) despite the full availability. I do feel a lot of technical friends of mine refused to subscribe for exactly the price reason. Most of the people in Fremont are working for tech companies and themselves professionals. If the penetration rate can't be raised above 10%. I am worried. The less than 10% power user, myself included, have already subscribed. @Home must address this issue. If @Home ever wanted to surpass AOL in its influence and reach, I feel the best way to reach that is by reducing the price in line with that of AOL's. The sad fact is, 90% of population are NOT power users. If you ignore them, how can you succeed? Can you succeed in an ivory tower?