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To: ld5030 who wrote (23041)	6/7/2000 1:01:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I would love to see Home cut an out-of-region deal with some utility cooperative, or a large association of municipalities. Heck, even to go for a round on their own, and lay down the foundation for a data only infrastructure. Internet-compatible data, after all, is what will be carrying everything soon, anyway... including voice and video. Why design and build a legacy network that was suited for the early Nineties, when you could put something in today that is designed for the horizon and for features which have yet to be conceived? That's what a wide open optical underpinning would permit. The key in ramping such a network is NOT designing it for old world commercial program television delivery over Radio Frequency coaxial delivery Ever. People already have that now, anyway. Or, they have satellite, or over the air. They don't need another legacy TV delivery system. The trick, instead, is to avoid those bloated legacy costs and grow into IP video over a less expensive fiber platform, gradually, tracking the the state of the art as it unfolds. All the while, leveraging the investment for higher speed data services, and reliable unchoked VoIP, and other streaming applications of the non-CBSNBCABCSFOX genre, now. Again, folks already have that today, so they wont miss it when it's not available over their fiber connections. ----------- And this isn't aimed at you, ld, but I've got to say this on my doctor's orders, for catharsis: If I hear another argument during the next 24 hours about life line power during storms (I've had a few discussions today about this) I'm going to puke on my pc. Forchrisakes, show me someone who owns a home that has telephones, cableTV and PCs, and who "doesn't" own a car with a cigarette lighter receptacle and a cellular phone, or at least a hand crank generator or a spare battery for the cellphone, and I'll show you someone who deserves to be stranded during a storm. _g_ FAC