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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45884)8/26/2001 10:36:09 PM
From: JHP  Respond to of 54805
 
Broadband Baloney
by Robert D. Hof
Business Week e.biz
sept3,2001 page eb 35
on your news stands now!
explains why broadband is not going to be the savior of the internet,how today less then 5% of US households have anted up!How it will take a decade according to Intel corp.excutive vice president Leslie l. Vadasz for 2/3 of households to get broadband!
Too expensive for hoseholds to sign up,net access cutomers WILL NOT pay more then $25 a month for broadband!!
Only killer apps on net are email and instant messaging and neither require broadband!!!
HO HO HO
Media companies and advertisers "still haven`t found a way to make money in the narrowband world," says Nick Gould,ceo of the New York web design company Catalyst Group Design. "How are they going to make money with broadband?"