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To: Jing Qian who wrote (4115)	1/11/1999 2:26:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

This has been discussed rather thoroughly in the past. ATHM has exclusive rights to operate on TCI's plant. When and if T merges, T will own the same proportionate right. The rights eventually expire, but why should T give up an established and very visible brand in order to do what they don't know how to do? ATT is not an ISP and they are not content enablers who manage a broadband network. ATHM has developed expertise in managing the evolving cable net and has their own proprietary redundancy model that everyone in the last several months on this thread consistently ignores. ATHM has a worldwide presence with agreements and momentum. It is in T's interest to leverage those efforts and combine them with their own at the physical level to achieve economies of delivery scale. ATHM is more than some "portal". That short for porthole? I think we have the common error of big or big money is smart and knows all about everything. Why, T owns Bell Labs, therefore they know everything and they can do everything. They don't need anybody. If that is true, why did the company almost go bust? Worldnet will eventually be folded into ATHM's network and is nothing like @Home except superficially. Copper ISPs can't become much more than they are now, but @Home is going to become something profoundly more and different from merely a "porthole" or ISP.