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To: craig crawford who wrote (7479)	2/10/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: Eric Olson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

<<Not exactly. Phone companies will need to have equipment to run DSL but they can still farm out the rest to an ISP like AOL. They don't have to become an ISP. AOL will probably strike up many deals to do DSL.>> The phone companies have the equipment and mine (US West) is planning to offer this service in June this year. They do not want to farm anything out they want that money going to ISP's in there own pockets. <<You think AOL is going to lose it's position in the industry just because new transmission techniques are utilized?>> Yes companies get wiped out because of new technologies all the time.

To: craig crawford who wrote (7479)	2/10/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Andrew Shih	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Not exactly. Phone companies will need to have equipment to run DSL but they can still farm out the rest to an ISP like AOL. They don't have to become an ISP. AOL will probably strike up many deals to do DSL.>> Hmm, it seems to me that all the phone companies are now also ISPs. Here in Michigan there's Ameritech.net. I could also get an account with AT&T, Sprint, or MCI! If they strike up deals, that may change the fundamentals of the company, but at this point, I don't think so... -Andrew