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To: David Harker who wrote (2646)	8/6/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

David, thanks for the info. Can you point me to a place that shows @home's major investors and their percentage: TCI - 50%, Intel - etc. I guess my question is are the deals that @home makes with cable cos. exclusive, or can these cable cos. provide the same infrastructure to another service provider? The fact that many own equity in @home is good news. By the way, I live in Boston, and my cable company has told me repeatedly that Internet access via cable is in very high demand....hopefully by the beginning of next year the service will be availble. joey

To: David Harker who wrote (2646)	8/6/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

With no free access to physical cable wire, AOL is screwed. Maybe they can pay ATHM to put an "AOL" icon on the ATHM home page, Just after T bought TCI the president of AOL made a statement that basically said: This is good news, perhaps we can make a deal with T for more bandwidth. Implying that T has the muscle to make ATHM do a deal for cheap. Within 2 days I read the president of ATHM saying something close to: If AOL thinks we are just another dumb pipe they are mistaken. If they want our service we want piece of the pie. I think it is kind of like you are saying. AOL will have to make a deal with someone. AOL is a really big sale and they need cable bad. I bet AOL is playing ATHM and road runner against each other for the best deal. ATHM, as I understand, is available on cable close to AOL's main site.