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To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (29493)	11/30/2001 9:19:59 PM
From: Geof Hollingsworth	Respond to of 29970

Adelphia has apparently pulled the plug on ATHM, at least wrt e-mail. Just got this from a colleague. With the demise of Exite@home, millions of businesses and individuals have lost their e-mail accounts overnight. Regrettably, ****** is one of these entities. Please note that as of the end of this day (Friday, 30 NOV 01), our years-old e-mail address of *@home.com will no longer be functional. According to our cable provider - all e-mail letters sent to this address after tonight can never be recovered. Worse, on one hand, they have killed off our e-mail address, and on the other -- they can NOT yet tell us when the new address will become functional. The next few days or weeks may prove interesting. Please note that formally, our new e-mail address is now: ****@adelphia.net

To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (29493)	11/30/2001 9:25:27 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The MSOs can build a replacement network for a fraction of the cost of building the ATHM one.. That's a pretty bold statement. If it is true then why did they set up ATHM in the first place? The truth of the matter is that the MSOs looked at the R&D needed to have a system that worked across all their areas uniformly, the money involved in upgrading hardware, etc etc and they decided the easiest thing to do is create one company that would do all that dirty work. They can go ahead and build their own networks and save $X/sub but now they will have to pay all the employees needed to run the system, upgrade the hardware at their expense, do all the R&D necessary to advance the system, etc. etc. all of which may cost more than $X/sub. Add to this the fact that the system will probably go to hell because the management will not want to spend money on anything and, from a business point of view, I really wonder if it makes financial sense to go down the path of having every MSO recreate their own baby ATHM.