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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2856)	2/13/1999 6:13:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank - When I referred to a common technology between TCI and Time Warner, I was thinking about the following excerpt from the article in Sounding Board Magazine: With integration into the high-speed data stream from cable Internet service provider (ISP) @Home Network (www.home.net), "telephony could be very cheap," Malone says. "Presumably, the voice telephony traffic could be a tiny component within the @Home data stream and on the @Home data network." To accomplish such efficiencies over data beyond the @Home clusters minimally would require contractual agreements with other data providers such as the Time Warner-MediaOne Road Runner venture, Malone suggests. "You have to have consistent routing; all the infrastructure has to be consistent," he says. So far, efforts to achieve this level of integration, with agreement on how bit streams are managed, prioritized and paid for, have not gotten very far, despite the existence of a task force under Time Warner Cable CEO Joseph Collins' guidance that is dedicated to creating such an integrated national cable data backbone. TCI Chief Operating Officer Leo Hindery said last summer he hoped to re-ignite merger talks between @Home and Road Runner in the interest of accomplishing such integration, but Road Runner officials indicate they no longer are interested in pursuing this course.