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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (128381)	7/15/2001 6:50:04 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, are you still stuck with Billy's Akami? >Comparable stand-alone "bandwidth" companies like Akamai (AKAM:Nasdaq - news - commentary) and Exodus (EXDS:Nasdaq - news - commentary) have given up most of their boom-time value. >Question: What about the economics of the Internet? Answer: Content is being withdrawn from the Web right now by the basketfuls. It's going to come back later on a fee basis. The referee has been blowing the whistle for a year saying, "Content get off the field, people aren't paying. No pay, no game." The first content to come back on the field is sports--baseball and the NBA. They've taken the content off the radio for free and are putting it on the Internet on a subscription basis. At NBC, we're still coming off the field, dusting off and trying to decide how to get back on the field.