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To: GraceZ who wrote (18948)	1/17/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Respond to of 29970

And how is this different from selling high speed Internet access? Because it is not a commodity, nor is the price in a freefall. Broadband networks require massive amounts of real things to implement, and constant supervision to maintain and improve. In addition customers once signed up are not easily shifted and provide a continuous revenue stream. There are very few conduits into the home and cable is by far the best available to most. All that aside: As @home itself admits internet access rates (including broadband) are trending eventually to zero. Providing a service that will keep customers is critical as there will be plenty of competition. For the long term it always has boiled down to this. What can @home do that will keep customers? Thats why they bought Excite (whether you like the choice or not)- as a platform on which to build some customer loyalty. Eric