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To: Jing Qian who wrote (4271)	1/13/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 29970

Thread: Are you aware that many large cities (Portland, Oakland, Maybe Seattle, and many others) are objecting to the franchise transfer from TCI to ATT unless they agree to allow other providers access on the same cable? I haven't seen anything about this news on this thread.

To: Jing Qian who wrote (4271)	1/13/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Mkilloran	Respond to of 29970

Jing Qian...they can get the same deal that @home gives MSFT you can access MSFT network from @home for an extra $6.95 a month. Aol allows access thru your primary ISP for $9.95 a month. But AOL want's to have control not just have customers of @home access AOL as an added service.

To: Jing Qian who wrote (4271)	1/13/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

RE: << I will get real worried if AOL cook up something that allow them to ride on cable>> Why? I'd like to hear your reasons, but it seems to imply you don't feel very confident ATHM (especially the @media arm) has any competitive advantage going head to head with AOL in the areas there is overlap, i.e. competing the base content page, and the goods and services links therein. And for Kenneth in reply 4272 (but in a similar vein), why do you (or do you) feel it would be such a bad thing for the consumer to have head to head competition and other choices of service? It forces the creative/competitive juices to flow and could in fact expedite advanced content rollout, as well as improve customer service. When there's no pressure to improve or excel, they won't. A good, confident growth-oriented company eats this opportunity up and uses it as fuel for growth. It spawns products and services that would otherwise not be possible. No competition = stagnation. A company that can creatively squash competition time after time is a much more solid investment than a brat only-child company that's never felt the pressure of competition. Also, just providing piggy-back access (for a fee, of course) to a network with a fixed number of endpoints and a plannable bandwidth requirement isn't the end of the world. No bandwidth is lost. The piggy-back (e.g. leased)services would still not be equivalent because they lack access to the capabilities of the RDC. dh

To: Jing Qian who wrote (4271)	1/13/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: Ty Morgan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

AOL will get into cable access, most likley through a venture with TWX, just wait and see.