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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gaffa who wrote (8845)	3/16/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Yikes	Respond to of 13594

Gaffa, thanks for the articles. ADSL alone will not kill AOL. But all broadband users together with other ISP/content subscribers will chip away at AOL's lead like MCI & Sprint chip away AT&T's lead. Most universities and corporations will continue to offer Internet access to their affiliates for free; none of them use it to access AOL content when the Web is available. Furthermore, the ASDL article is misleading. It reports the problem with ASDL, but makes gross assumption on cable modems. It states that "the majority of online households will use the fastest, lowest-cost access supplied by their ISP" is highly questionable. It's like saying luxury cars have no market when they first appear. But to the contrary, luxury cars, SUV's, sports cars, all together accounts for more revenue than cheap compacts. To most households, including mine, cable modem is not an option. But I'd jump on it the minute it is.