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To: RocketMan who wrote (3956)	2/1/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Rocket... re:"This was expected. The cablecos will go..." Hi Rocket, I agree with your post and like your analysis. The cable companies are the best example of what happens when there is not competition in an industry. Also cable companies have no history of moving data over their lines and I think this will help to bury them as a media outlet. Phone companies are well experienced at technology innovation as they or others come up with faster and cheaper ways to move data. (Don't get me wrong... infighting between local and long distance phone companies are strangling the natural development of a truly competitive local phone market.) AT&T even had their own technology division just to develop and mature the medium. Nothing even close like that with cable. I don't think cable has promise. How many networks you know that run on cable within in an office? Me? None. The media of choice is copper wire, not coax. And with the routers and hubs and switches we have a wealth of information on the signaling properties of copper wire. How much do we know about cable? Not much, because nothing outside of the cable industry has been developed, except early network cards, hubs and routers. The cable companies will fail in their execution, if they execute at all as the most advanced technological executions they have had in the last 10 years is a new button on your remote control. They will milk this since they have a media entrance into a lot of homes, but I think it will eventually be the 8-track of home media entrance. Just my opinion. Jon :)