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To: Bill Ham who wrote (172)	7/7/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: Wally	Respond to of 15313

To All: Speaking of bandwidth and other technological requirements of the FNTN enterprise. I read an interesting comment in Business Week made by an executive at Dell computers. To paraphrase: "A quality Internet site is 20%, the rest is knowing your customers." We're all very interested in how the websites will look and operate, and well we should be. Their both important and very much topical. BUT - Let's not diminish the focus on the human driver(s) behind the wheel. I like the credentials of the executives involved. I like their contacts and business acumen - particularly previous track records. We're guessing and second guessing when it comes to website structures and business timing questions. The past successes of the FNTN executives are the one solid piece of information that's irrefutable.. and that, more than any other reason, is why I invested in Financial Intranet. Wally

To: Bill Ham who wrote (172)	7/8/1998 4:08:00 AM
From: T.M.K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15313

Hi Bill and all, You touched on a very interesting subject "future bandwidth" which I would like to expand on a little. The net is going to be the dominant force in our day to day life, being personal or work habits. Just imagine the following scenarios: - Doing your groceries purchases and ordering, banking transactions, reservations, food take-away orders receiving call and answering them through the net on-line. Means being on the net all the time. - Your home appliances calling their service locations directly informing them of problems. Your car informing the service garage that it has this and that problem and that it needs to be serviced. - Calling London or Singapore from the US for one cent a minute or less. It will be just a medium for other profitable services. Like what MCI is offering. - Working virtually for an American company from India or Russia. Auditing their results, looking at marketing activities, doing surgery, consultation thousands of miles away. - Being able to download a two hour video program (Movie) in few minutes/seconds, due to gigabyte speeds. - Your Traditional TV will be interactive not one way as it is now. You will be able to surf the net and choose what program you want to watch at the time you want to watch, express your opinions in polls, and talk to people. - You will be able to publish your own video programs, using films you captured on your digital video-cam, to cyber space without abiding by any broadcasting laws. - The whole world will be wired and information will be flowing over the net for smart people and companies to make use of, if they want to survive in the next millennium. Having said all of that, which maybe a part of a fiction movie to some, and comparing it with the following statement from a startup company which seems to be dreaming and could fall on its face because of lack of vision " Financial Intranet is in the process of establishing the nation's first, proprietary, secured on demand, INTERACTIVE HIGH-SPEED VIDEO, VOICE and DEDICATED DATA-STREAM INFORMATION NETWORK,......." In 5 years from now, and I am being very conservative all of the above mentioned scenarios will be part of our daily life without any doubt, and who will be running and providing these services? Giant corporations that had the vision and wisdom to be the leaders in grabbing those opportunities. I said Giant Corporations (multi-billion dollar) IN FIVE YEARS FROM NOW not small and startup companies worth 60 CENTS. I will leave you to make the correlation you desire to derive to what kind of a company(s) that may have the chance of becoming that multi-billion dollar corporation of the future. Consider it hyping or whatever you want, this is what I firmly believe in. Prove me wrong if you want, need to wait 5 years for that though. Your views and objections are appreciated. Regards TMK