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To: lml who wrote (7049)	5/21/2000 10:13:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 12823

lml and Curtis- I'm hoping what you two are experiencing is a reflection of a very poorly run MSO. So lml doesn't have it(even with the threat of DSL and DBS). And Curtis has it, but believes it to be a poor alternative. This doesn't make me feel too good as a MSO equipment investor. Curtis how come you don't try it since it sounds like your DSL service is on the very poor scale? It doesn't cost anything to switch over to a cable modem. So I'm curious as to why you don't at least trial it? Thanks. -MikeM(From Florida)

To: lml who wrote (7049)	5/21/2000 10:25:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Excellent post, lml. Borrowing from both your and Mike's approaches, however, perhaps a third type of entity that could round off the checks and balances of oversight might be a wild card entrant. Like a wireless outfit, or one of those fiber-to-the-home firms who is hooked up with the utility companies. Perhaps you should extend a personal invitation to one, or both, of these media forms as you have to RCN. Come to think of it, though, I think that RCN is in fact working with some of the utilities. Be that as it may, what do you say that we crank it up a notch! The incumbents have had long enough to prove themselves, and apparently they've failed in your case. Which brings back the notion that if a franchised entity can't deliver on a set of expectations within a prescribed time frame, then the franchise should be re-awarded, or an incremental franchise should be awarded, to someone else. Sometimes, often, it's much easier to do a bunch of horizontals than it is to further the mission of one vertical.