Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: re3 who wrote (77606)	9/17/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, why not go to cash and wait till jan or feb 2000...its just 4 months away...how much would you lose out in four months...holding dirty old cash aint THAT bad (ggg) Ike, I would go to cash but my belief is there will a lot of upside this fall. My guess (we know it is strictly a guess) is this sector will run up in the fall Y2K or not. As for AOL not being needed due to free services, I believe that is far from true. AOL has excellent content much of which is not free on the net. It also is easy to use. I maintain my AOL account from the first year it started but use bring your own service or whatever they call it. The problem in my mind is not if AOL is needed it is what the street wil believe going forward. I have for the most part gone to a buy and hold strategy. I can't predict nor beat the market. I just want a balance portfolio and let the market work for me. I am not well balanced in the net sector so am playing there until I am comfortable. Glenn

To: re3 who wrote (77606)	9/17/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

AOL Canada Pact to Offer Internet Access Over Cable America Online Inc.'s Canadian subsidiary agreed with a small cable-television company to introduce high-speed broadband Internet access over cable to small towns in Canada. Such a link with a cable company has largely eluded America Online, Dulles, Va., in the U.S., and analysts said the Canadian agreement, while small, could buttress the U.S. parent's efforts to strike similar deals at home. The Canadian accord, between AOL Canada Inc. and Regional Cablesystems Inc., calls for the service to begin this autumn in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, population 6,200. A national rollout to Regional Cablesystems' 250,000 subscribers in 1,000 nonmetropolitan areas across Canada is expected to follow, but a timetable hasn't been set, AOL Canada said. Regional Cablesystems is based in St. John's, Newfoundland. Cable companies in the U.S., especially AT&T Corp., one of the biggest players, have balked at the request by AOL to lease them bandwidth because of the enormous investments required to upgrade the cable networks for two-way data communications.