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To: John Trader who wrote (12230)	5/19/2002 12:19:47 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

I had a totally opposite reaction to the Cringely article so will re-read it. His columns appear weekly at pbs.org under I. Cringely. He is very much outside the box. My favorite is his piece on how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs each won the war - as they define it.

To: John Trader who wrote (12230)	5/19/2002 9:18:21 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

John, I only have a moment to comment and will try to find the article later tonite. Broadband may effectively be dead for those that do not have access. Only because they do not understand the convenience or need in their own life. The clients that we hook up to our network have woven the high speed access into their daily needs. I have a client that has a large eyeglass store. They use the high speed access to share a connection over 16 pc's to get approval quickly from patients insurance provider. He will not work without it now. His store was outside the DSL footprint and had no other choice. He pays promptly. Another client uses our system to send and receive photos that he prints into laser posters. He could not do it without our service. We have folks that teleconference. Some send family photos. Webmasters use us to FTP. Attorneys use us for PDF files. In a recent large case here at the courthouse two large opposing law firms out of Denver sat up shop here for three months of trial. While in town each firm was using our service. We made sure not to tell either of them their opponent was just a few packets away. We did make sure that each was firewalled before connection. Broadband dead????? In my opinion only to the anal-ysts that think that their opinion really matters to someone. I think that the only anal-ysts that I would trust are those that get out and get their hands dirty in the respective market. I have never trusted unearned opinions. Probably never will. Would I invest heavy in the telecoms now. NO! Will there be consolidation and bankruptcy looming on their horizons. Probably. Broadband is weaving its way into our daily life. Business and personal use will increase and the internet will truly become part of our daily landscape. By then my small corner of the internet venture will either bear fruit or bare my pockets. Either way the journey into the future is a road we all must walk and I don't think that we will, as a society, sink into letting all of our advances in science and technology fall by the wayside. I trust in the spirit of entrepenuership and believe that bumps along the road will smooth. BTW: We are lighting another city next month. T-1's ordered, radios being programmed, Towers being placed and leases signed. From idea to install time less than 60 days and we penetrate a 35,000 population market with approx. 80% coverage. Show me a high speed competitor in copper or fiber that can boast that! Over 90 presells in this market from a mailer that totaled 540 households. Better than a 17% return. Broadband dead? Not in this market! Bill