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To: bundashus who wrote (4094)	1/30/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Jack T. Pearson	Respond to of 41369

I don't think it make sense for @home to drop their prices as long as they can't install it faster than they currently can and as long as they don't have local competitors for high bandwidth access. The problem isn't price. It is infrastructure and hookup labor requirements. @home has a limited customer base. It was 300,000 at the end of 1998, I believe. I couldn't get @home until the cables in my area were upgraded. I applied as soon as it was available (Jan 98) and got it in two weeks. A friend applied later the same day and his wasn't installed for three months. The bottleneck is installation. It took about an hour. They had to test the cable connection where I planned to hook up to see if the signal was strong enough. They had to remove filters from my hookup to cable out at the street. They had to install and set up the ethernet card in my computer. They had to install the @home/netscape browser. They ran into a couple of problems and it took about two hours.