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To: gpowell who wrote (13126)	7/29/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Jing Qian	Respond to of 29970

gpowell, I totally agree. Lack of a power application can explain why most people don't pay more for faster speed. To most of them, paying 20 bucks more is not worth it. Most of them only surf couple of popular sites such as Yahoo, CNET or eBay. And most of the popular sites are text based and they can be downloaded just as fast as the Cable modem. All right the download may be a little slower, but only take 1-2 seconds more. The majority of the net users don't download MP3 music yet. And they don't have the time to view Broadcast.com. So why are they eager to pay $20 more for much the same service? 20 buck may not mean much to some of you, but it means a lot to many of the middle income families in Fremont. Take my friend as an example, he has to pay for his own health insurance, child care expenses, as well as high mortgate payment. If he can save 20 bucks, he would. Is there anything that he absolutely need from @Home?? Probably none. With the lack of power applications and the current stage of text based contents, @Home will not descend to Average Joe's family as fast as imagined. It is still being viewed as a fancy toy for geeks. The only thing to change this is to reduce the price. $20 can serve to kill AOL's business model instantly. Why not do it?

To: gpowell who wrote (13126)	7/30/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Since the difference between a dial up ISP with a second phone line is about the same as an @Home acct why the reluctance to sign up. Are people not considering the dropping of that second line in their cost equation. My brother spoke to some acquaintances in San Diego who were saying @home was just too expensinve until my brother pointed out the real cost of the ISP and the second line. Once they understood they wondered why they hadn't done it before. Maybe the advertising campaign for @home should focus on this cost analysis. jb