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To: Will Cunningham who wrote (2376)	1/25/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 9256

Re: Gurley article data broadcast GREAT article! Drives home the story of an big potential industry waiting to explode. A company called Global Village [?] or something is marketing a low-bandwidth data broadcast service called Internet Antenna. I tried it for a while, but dumped it after a month because the software client was a piece of shit and the bandwidth was way too low. Not nearly as much information was "on the air" as their advertising led me to expect. But the very fact that I sent away for it and was willing to pay a subscription fee of $10 a month evidences the viability of the concept. Notwithstanding the 32Mb number Gurley slings around (as well as lots of other irritating touting) even a 1Mb broadcast would allow some serious content to get beamed out. It would certainly keep your computer busy filtering constantly filtering so much content . . . and would chew up huge quantities of local storage, just like Gurley suggests. Great demand drivers for multitasking CPU horsepower and gobs of drivespace. Thanks for posting that Will! PX