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To: Skip Jack who wrote (5895)	8/9/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

OH BABY!!! An early iteration of the business model shows the consumer paying for the set-top box and receiving most services without additional service charge. "We'd like to make it as low cost as possible, if not free, to the customer," she says. AT&T BIS also is setting aside funds for "seed" investments but Interactive Offerings doesn't plan on owning big stakes in content suppliers. It does intend to make the interactive features it develops available on as many AT&T delivery vehicles as possible. AT&T BIS President-CEO "Leo [Hindery] talks about the four legs of the stool--data, telephony, video, and this is the fourth," says Priddy. "We spend a lot of time talking to people in the other three. This has to interact in a very elegant way."