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To: ahhaha who wrote (2928)	10/24/1998 12:40:00 AM
From: Matt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I can understand AOL's desperation, but what do they want? Do they want @Home to divide the $40 access fee into a charge for the hook up, and charge for e-mail and other services? How do you value these other services? My ISP is Cable and Wireless. I was given Microsoft's Internet Explorer to use as a browser, but preferred to stick with the Netscape browser I got from AT&T when they were my ISP. Both browsers were tailored for the ISPs, but I changed the settings and now Yahoo Finance is the home page of the AT&T provided Netscape browser I use with my ISP Cable and Wireless, who bought the business from MCI when MCI was bought out by Worldcom. Yahoo charges me nothing. So if TCI were to split the cost between high speed access and other services, wouldn't that be $40 for high speed internet access and $0 for the other services which would depend on advertisement dollars for their revenues. When enough customers have high speed internet access won't there be hundreds of sites competing with TCI for eyeballs. If Yahoo, Disney, CBS, NBC, ABC, Discovery, USA Today, HBO, Ted Turner, Heaven's Gate, or Fidel Castro offered me what I wanted in content wouldn't I make them my home page, and all the others bookmarks. What am I missing here? I never had AOL. But I did have Netcom, Compuserve, AT&T, MCI, and now Cable & Wireless. I didn't like Netcom and Compuserve because they kept leading me to services which carried a toll. But they were better than AOL who was charging by the hour back then. Anyway, what is it that AOL offers that customers absolutely must have and should pay for? Does anybody remember the Bells hurting over the uncompensated increase in phone line usage that AOL and other ISPs created? Did AOL compensate the Bells for that one? The free ride is over, and their model no longer works. If the government feels sorry for them, it would be better if the government bought their stock then try to convolute what should be a simple model of a broadcast medium (CableCo@Home) and broadcast companies (content providers).