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To: levy who wrote (11572)	8/26/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Yep... Free internet access is the future. It will become the conduit for the consumer to interact with businesses, entertainment, and information. It is in the internet industries interests to facilitate a rapid and inexpensive expansion of online participation. And free user friendly set-top boxes will provide one of those last vital links for reaching the "technologically challenged". Btw, it looks like "hell" is yanking at its chains in an attempt to make a jailbreak.... :0) Message 11073952

To: levy who wrote (11572)	8/26/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Steven R. Michaud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Hey Lev, that's what I was kind of hinting at earlier with the netzero thing... Is this going to be the wave of the future..(we know MSN is thinking about it)...AOL eventually will be forced to or lose a lot of their 30 million customers... The real issue here is # of phone lines per customers...(I recently got connected to ERINET (~17$/month) and they told me that they have roughly 5:1 customer's to phone lines... they said AOL is something like 30:1... GNET could purchase leverage itself this way by offering free access, which would undoubtably give more hits to GNET or its sites; however, what is the profit of such a venture. The only thing I can think of is advertising revenue, which (I think) goes against what Russ and Co. are trying to do.... As a consumer, I think its great...so long as the ratio of customers to phone lines can be kept low Any thoughts here... Steve