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Technology Stocks : AT&T -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vladimir Zelener who wrote (1552)	7/3/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: Terrapin	Respond to of 4298

"The acquisition of TCI is not about Internet or 10-15 years ahead strategy into the future. It is about local voice business in the next 3 to 5 years." I agree. And in the meantime there will be a lot of people, like me, who cancelled their Worldnet service to get @HOME. Since AT&T has a controlling interest in @HOME as well as the cable that on which it travels they are not really missing much. They can then use the present revenue from the cable internet and digital cable to support the upgrade. These lines are not just going to sit there waiting to be upgraded - they are going to be bringing in revenue. And each plant that is upgraded will bring in more revenue than before. John

To: Vladimir Zelener who wrote (1552)	7/3/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Phil(bullrider)	Respond to of 4298

V Z, You must be an AT&T employee that was instrumental in the decision to increase the ISP rate, or you would not feel the need to argue so vehemently. I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree, since I intend this to be my last post on this subject. As I have previously stated, I have five people in my home. None of us "sit on line around the clock", however, three of the five are teenagers. I had AT&T as my ISP for two reasons. 1. My family (mostly my children) like to use AOL. With AOL 3.0, to change users, you had to lose the connection, and obtain a new one. Also, if the computer locked up, froze, or whatever you want to call it, while on AOL, you would have to log on again. This was a major pain in the a**. So I made AT&T my ISP and eliminated some of the problems. I was paying AT&T $19.95 per month, and was paying AOL $7.95 per month. 2. For business reasons, I didn't particularly care for my AOL E-Mail handle, and with AT&T I had another choice. Since I was a long time AT&T LD customer, over 20 years, I felt a certain amount of loyalty, coupled with the fact that AT&T has used me as a consultant. V Z, I simply find it hard to understand most of your statements regarding the future of the company. The one statement that I made that you need to understand, is that T not only lost a ISP account when they lost me, they lost a LD account as well. Now, instead of them having two accounts with me, they have none. Were they making any money out of my accounts? I don't know. Will they make any now? NO!! How many LD accounts will they lose? Who knows. There are still a lot of ISP's providing unlimited service for $14.95 per month. If AT&T can't compete, they need to sell Worldnet to someone that can manage it economically. Enough said, No response necessary, since as I said, I'm done, Phil