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To: GraceZ who wrote (27500)	4/3/2001 1:28:01 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 29970

Maybe they could have a bake sale or something. I'll make cookies.

To: GraceZ who wrote (27500)	4/3/2001 2:28:53 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

"It's save the Internet day!" Grace.. you're too late. 1112.net

To: GraceZ who wrote (27500)	4/3/2001 2:34:17 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

You don't know! You don't know! There were a lot of jerks on this thread that swore on a stack of bibles that the self install kit was better than a truck roll. The trucks still have to roll whenever they do which is pretty rare, and no one does a self install. You can't find such kits anywhere. Maybe Fry's has them, but the assistance line there was too long to ask. The hacks, the frauds, the amateurs, who think they know something about business, lectured me on why self install was the way. Where is the way now? Losers. Well maybe the losers can blame it on ATHM. They should, but not in any way that would bail them out of their narrow minded uninformed thinking. With flat revenues and rising costs ATHM is plunging so deeply that Att which has put off the inevitable will have to force a merger buyout of ATHM. This was obvious two years ago. The losses ATHM is generating with their persistent Quiche squandering will have to be eliminated or the impact on Att will be great. Att is already choosing a wrong strategy by emphasizing long distance savings as a means to gain local customers. At the same time the company has all but abandoned BB:telephony, preferring to use the FCC's ruling that local carriers must give up customers who want to opt for Att's bundling, to use the incumbent's copper network. Att built the cable network to support telephony and now it sits idly. What are the economics of this strategy? If you don't do a lot of long distance, it isn't worth it. Most locals don't do enough long distance to justify the jump. Att does add bells and whistles to their bundle, but mostly the fringe benefit comes by providing site hosting. They're in competition with @Home.