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To: ahhaha who wrote (18968)	1/17/2000 9:16:00 PM
From: Jack Hartmann	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

If TCI in IL has about 20,000 cable TV subscribers in an geographic area in IL. You are saying that ATHM could deliver @Home into our territory cheaper than it would cost TCI to built their own network to compete against ATHM? I would have figured that TCI would get a better subscriber percentage than a new entry such as ATHM since the cable TV users are already familar with TCI. If the cost of building the network for cable is expensive, then the DSL network must be at least 75% cheaper to start since we have at least four companies (Ameritech, GTE, Covad, UUNet) pushing DSL in Chicagoland to none for cable. I have never understood why ATHM or roadrunner haven't started a presence in this large metropolitian area. I see DSL getting a jump on cable that will be hard to beat. I don't see any statistics of DSL users switching to cable. Did anyone on SI switch from DSL to cable? Jack