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

To: Jing Qian who wrote (13615)	8/5/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: Ron Dior	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29970

<<Somehow ATHM must figure out a way to survive with 0 (zero) subscription charge.>> Everyone here is assuming that we will be comparing apples to apples. This 'free access', what exactly will it be? More than likely a 56k dial-up connection using MSTF explorer w/MSN homepage. There will be 200 million people trying to dial up and it will take 6 hours before your even online. Then it will take another 20 minutes to download your home page. They will have to change the phrase "surf the web" to "crawl the web". On the other hand for a fee you will have people using ATHM at the speed of light, interacting with their own TV's, etc.. The new phrase will be "Bobsled the web". I think that free net access is a gimmick and will be buried right next to the pet rock! Ron Dior