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To: ahhaha who wrote (19483)	2/8/2000 8:03:00 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Read it and it specifically says that they are using coax after the fiber loops. Fiber rings will be deployed down to neighborhood areas serving 30 to 60 homes. From their press release: WIN plans to offer all area homes and businesses, video, high speed Internet access, local and long distance telephone served over a "broad band" hybrid fiber optic network. What do you think they mean by hybrid here? As early as mid-2001, customers could tap into the fiber network through coaxial cable or telephone lines, although fiber connections direct to the home eventually could happen, Vaughn said. I think that this is specifically the quote that made Frank skeptical and rightly so. Their site makes it pretty clear that while the fiber loops will be taken closer to the home then the MSOs take theirs, they will run coax up to the subscribers homes.

To: ahhaha who wrote (19483)	2/8/2000 9:45:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

OT Ahhh, there's the Sixties AHhaha who I thought I knew: "On strike, shut it down. On strike, shut it down." I invite you and other interested parties here to join me later in the day in a discussion on the risks and reward justifications used by carriers to take "Loss-Lead" positions when considering bandwidth issues. These issues will follow the natural development of the FTTH talks I've been having with Dave Horne and others on the Frank Coluccio Technology Forum. The reason for this is that ATHM shouldn't take the brunt of any negative comments any longer. Subject 30664 The architectural aspects which I have issues with are industrywide and not necessarily in any way directly assignable to @home, alone. One should read into this that almost every criticism ever cited here by me in the past in this context should have also been cited as being directed at every other cartel-dominated operator (All Operators, in effect), as well, whether they are a part of the home consortium or not. In retrospect I think that I owe an apology of sorts to investors here who may have construed my well-intentioned rants. At their roots, they were not directed at @home or their partners, exclusively. For the Record. Regards, Frank Coluccio ps - the author's use of the term "pure" in the context in which it is used raises some speculation on my part that indeed these boards are viewed by more people than one would ordinarily think.