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To: E. Davies who wrote (15044)	9/1/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: Michael P. Michaud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

The point is that this is an overt attempt to usher AOL into cable and if it is at all successful, then AOL will make substantially greater effort to sell their services to those MSOs which are not hostage to the ATHM agreement. If there is a large subscriber base available, just how loyal will an MSO like Comcast remain? For that matter how loyal will T remain? As for ATHM offering free AOL, it is very cleaver. They get to snag a few subs from AOL, and look good to the regulators at the same time. This benefits ATHM. For T to backdoor AOL, that doesn't benefit ATHM much. But T has denied this thus far.