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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1938)	2/10/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Chung Lee	Respond to of 4298

AT&T CEO says cable network to be open to others cbs.marketwatch.com WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- AT&T's chief executive says the carrier will allow independent content providers such as America Online access to its soon-to-be-acquired residential cable lines, dismissing qestions that his company will operate the network as a monopoly. C. Michael Armstrong, in a speech Wednesday at the National Press Club, said customers want as much access to content as possible and it's in AT&T's "self-interest" to satisfy them. See text of speech. "The way you make money in networking is to have the most traffic over your facilities. And the way you have the most traffic over your facility is you attract the most content." Armstrong said. "We'll attract all the traffic we can on that network." Text of AT&T CEO Armstrong's speech cbs.marketwatch.com

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1938)	2/10/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4298

Agreed, Frank. There will ALWAYS be a debate. Good to see you on the T thread. Really don't have time to wallow thru the ATHM thread & Last Mile has gone to sleep. Neverthess, I still have some posting to do on that thread & a few others. Just been busy with a NY-based client -- which is good. I do believe my DSL wishes will be met soon with the intro of these 3GDLCs. PacBell is saying probably w/i a year. Plus, I've confirmed the T1 across the canyon 'bout 1 mile road distance is fiber. We like fiber. PacBell is telling me they can design a solution for my situation today, but the hardware is not available yet. Then the next day this comes across the wires: fibre.com, Then yesterday this: xdsl.com So the technology is available. I think PacBell is just testing the products on its network & needs approval from SBC to purchase the equipt. Then, I understand deployment would require PacBell's tarif to be extended beyond the current 18,000 ft limit. I don't see this as a problem, but how long would it take? TIA for commentary. lml