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To: Larry S. who wrote (38536)	2/17/2002 11:17:22 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Larry, "Instead of a stampede of customers to fill up these fiber optic highways, the industry found itself with too many vacant lanes way too many. " So why is it then that the customer can't get served sometimes? If its there, and useable, and customers want to use it, why is the service so poor? For example: Take Nascar.com/Realnetworks today, they have a new for pay service that updates the race online, provides in car audio to your selected driver pit communications, etc. What happened? System crashed from what I expect to be overload of users at the onset of the Daytona 500. When it was back up, there was a 2 minute delay in the communications. The delay wasn't in my broadband access connection. So it must be somewhere in the broadband pipe itself. Why is that? If such capacity exists? So there is the situation. The service providers can't get me the service in real time I want to actually pay for. Nor could it get out to the suspected overload of users who paid as well. What happens when all this supposed excess capacity meets the right application? Take the Nascar example. What if not only in car audio is available, but you can also select the incar camera you want to view. Ride along with your favorite driver. You think people would pay for that service? You think the broadband capacity could get it to them? I don't. They could barely handle the audio which is small compared to video. If we have all this excess capacity, then where are the above example applications to use it? I guarantee that in the above example users would triple.