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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (17525)	12/6/1999 2:19:00 AM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

My other question concerning ATHM's and the MSOs collective reticence to allow streaming content and work-at-home file transferring at this time, you did not answer yet, however. Except to state that a lot of work needs to be done in the upstream. I deliberately glossed over the issue of upstream bandwidth because I don't really feel informed enough about the technical details to be accurate about it. However I do know that the upstream transmitters are capable of sending on multiple frequencies and that they send in time slots dictated by a master controller at the node (head end?). There is also in some cases bandwidth above the TV spectrum that might be used for upstream data. This seems to me to provide somehow that there will be the capability of seperating upstream into a few distinct spaces in either time or frequency. If you can completely seperate the operation of different ISP's into non overlapping spaces then each will be able to set whatever policies they like without affecting anyone else. Will there be enough total bandwidth? Only at a price, and maybe never enough to support bidirectional applications. The MSO's if they have any smarts will sell the bandwidth to the highest bidder. Someone may even buy a channel purely for the purpose of reselling it in pieces to small ISPs. This all works only if the government doesn't step in to "fix" things and "protect" the consumer. Eric