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To: RocketMan who wrote (4313)	1/15/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: Moose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Rocketman, The dish plan surprised me as well. I've been considering fixed-cell would be interesting competition in the future... but dish? Too much of a pain in the _ss to set up for most... although it looks like not too much trouble for 1.8Million subscribers... -Thomas

To: RocketMan who wrote (4313)	1/15/1999 9:57:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Hi RM, if others don't know what you are referring to re: MSFT(via WebTV) and EchoStar (dish), here's a press release: dailynews.yahoo.com Regarding your confusion, both have some elements of truth, but why ask why? People can say anything regarding their reason. The reason they give could be to distract attention from the real reason...who knows. But Hughes has the know how to make such a system work in theory. For example: hns.com And some other satellite data networks: virtualgeo.com techguardian.com biz.yahoo.com DBS may be a gap filler, but there are plenty more satellite, terrestrial, and HSTN system possibilities for the future. People have to get the ATHM monopoly thoughts out of their head in my opinion. It isn't necessary for their future success. Once @work becomes more widespread, the monopolist-wannabe investors are going to go nuts with the same situation of competition for the business dollar showing up almost daily. Remember, @home can play the cable game, the satellite game, the DSL game, the LMDS game, the MMDS game, the business game, the consumer game, ...doesn't matter. It's a service layer. It can ride on any medium. Regional data centers can be set up for any medium. It's transport-agnostic. It could be adapted to a cup-and-string network for the right price. The @home network doesn't need to be a single contiguous network. In fact it would seem to need to be isolated for each "game" because of the differing bandwidth capabilities. P.S. part 2 of that article should be out this weekend so just check the link this weekend, but backspace over the filename and reload. dh