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To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (29831)	12/7/2001 6:11:14 PM
From: Richard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

``At $50 a month, the expense of providing the service exceeds revenue,'' he said. ``It's a huge challenge to deliver a service that's reliable. And if you don't work at home, a lot of people don't even want to pay $50, so there's a real inherent problem.'' I don't believe for one minute that at $50/month the expense exceeds the revenue. The $50 was being split between the cable company and @Home. I'm not so sure that the real problem might have been that @Home was only receiving $20 of that. It was the tuning of the split that was the problem. You better believe the cable companies will have no problem if they take the entire $50.

To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (29831)	12/9/2001 2:28:31 AM
From: Bob Rudd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

<<``At $50 a month, the expense of providing the service exceeds revenue,''>>But look from whence he speaks:, <<a competitive phone carrier>>These guys that don't own the last mile gotta rent it from the SBC's of the world. The guys that own that last mile like T's cable or the Baby Bells...once it's set up, $5o more than covers it, IMO. One reason there's not more competition is that the Bells don't want to hurt there higher priced business broadband ISDN, T-1 and such for which they get $$$'s. Cable offers twice the speed as DSL and prices just under them...enough to get most of the business. If Bell DSL wasn't afraid or ruining that other biz, prices would be a lot more competitive.