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Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sonki who wrote (2593)	7/30/1998 3:45:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I'll take it Franz, you probably have hit the elephant, but anyone may correct me. The availability of ATHM is slated for the end of the year for your area. Probably your cable is standard coax which won't adequately handle the full-blown service. You have to have your cable upgraded to HFC. This upgrading is the main reason for the slow deployment of @Home. TCI has pledged and ATHM is planning a SF Bay Area fall roll-out which will showcase the @Home service. Approximately then you're neighborhood will be pulled by service companies to HFC. At that time TCI will be able to offer the service by referring you to @Home representative. TCi can't do this now because there is in most cases no adequate cable infra-structure in place, so TCI hasn't given instruction to their local representatives. They don't want to create a "vaporware" turnoff. If the roll-out proceeds as planned, my guess is that you won't have it until Feb '99. Initially you should just get the service and go with the plan. In time when you get a little more sophisticated, you will be able to go to Fry's and get your own modem or some other gadget. The cost you will incur is very small and the plan helps you to not shoot yourself in the foot. The land is too primitive to expect crops the first year. The entry is now. Don't sell. You just create problems for yourself. An investment means that you hold and suffer when it goes down. You're trying to avoid suffering, and you end up suffering twice as much. Either buy in and stay or stay out.