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To: david who wrote (35722)	12/21/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: Sly_	Respond to of 41369

Caught this on CNBC: CNBC 12/21/99 - 5:54:31 PM .....into the free-isp field today, and the shares took off. >> Juno started by giving away free e-mail access and built user base of nearly 3 million active members. By saying effective immediately those customer will have basic internet access available through juno for free painewebber analyst james said the company is positioned as the leading dial up provider behind only aol now. Saying juno market cap before the announcement of 1.1 Billion dollars substantially undervalues the company. His prediction 1.3 Million juno customer will take up the free offer in the next quarter or so. Making juno the large e-fry isp surpassing netzero and altavista. But, is there any money to be made giving away internet access for nothing? Juno ceo insists the answer is yes. >> We believe in value of having millions consumer looking screen we control there value there in same way value for ted turner controlling tv screen or bill grates for that matter controlling computer screen many different ways we can extract the value we can show advertising products, sales services we can do other things we have not even development of yet but in report. Said. Many free isp customer use free service only as back up fine constant staoeugz in introduce kpeu distracting and complain about poor service and busy signals. The free isp are going to bring a lot of attention will see them mounting subscriber basis we don't displacing may model they also offer premium internet ..... ### Comments?