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To: Robert Rose who wrote (12073)	9/16/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 28311

It does to me too. Plus, Keister talked about broadband last night. Maybe Steve thinks that it is really coming together, and getting everyone ready for it. What is your opinion?

To: Robert Rose who wrote (12073)	9/16/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

So what do you figure a "broadband platform" is? And what makes GNET such a thing if there is such a thing? I ask the questions because I'd genuinely like to hear the answers of others on the thread. But let me also suggest what my own answers would be. "Broadband platform" strikes me as a nearly meaningless term. If it means anything, the term seems best suited to those entities that supply broadband connections -- the telephone companies and their copper-wire competitors, and the cable companies and their associated providers like ATHM and HSAC. If that's what the term means, then GNET isn't a part of that game. But even if one takes it to mean providers of content geared specifically to broadband, GNET seems to offer more promise than reality at this point. Others, including Yahoo, Excite, Snap, Real, Microsoft, and even AOL, provide broadband content today that isn't matched by any current offering from GNET. The Vulcan-Charter connection gives GNET great promise, but so far it's only that. And since Charter's is a smaller cable system than the big three, one would expect that GNET would need more than just that association to become a significant "broadband platform".