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To: E. Davies who wrote (13197)	7/31/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: red_dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

What really gets me when I see the cost thrown here and there, no one mentions that excite through T offers its phone modem for 14.94 a month. Tell me why? Is this to push @home, yes give it time. Unhappy people should buy stock in any of the others, there are so many to choose from. Or invest in other area's. Why invest and than complain about the stock price. You as a small stock holder have no control over anything. I say move on you doubters let us continue our discussion on ways that we think the company may improve, just maybe they are watching. But I doubt it. Regards Rg

To: E. Davies who wrote (13197)	8/1/1999 1:30:00 PM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

E. Davies, You are right on. ATHM must somehow break away from its 'fancy toy for geeks' mode before she can look similar to AOL in its early days. I am not a marketing person so I am not sure at what price level it would make it happen. But 2 things ATHM can do to at least emulate AOL's early success: 1) Adjust the price to whatever level so @Home can appear not as a premium service but a mass market alternative to AOL. Most people don't have an idea what broad band really is, and won't venture out to pay double the money for the experience. They simply are mostly happy with the speed of AOL to access Yahoo. You can't blame them, they don't know what a broadband experience is until they can try it. But why do they bother to try by paying $20 more? 2) Build the cable modem inside the PC so ATHM can simply mail out a CD to users for self installation. I think ATHM is doing that right now.