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To: Harry J. who wrote (15231)	2/18/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Harry, The local phone voice business = $ 100 billions a year The LD phone voice business = $ 100 billions a year AOL the lagrest ISP has 18 million subscribers, each is paying around $250 a year for access. The total is $ 4.5 billions, which AOL pays back to RBOCs for local lines. The AOL profit is being made only due to advertisements. Even if the number of active Internet subscribers in US is 50 millions, the total access revenues in comparison with phone voice sales is negligeble. I have heard many times before the argument you are making about cable not being fast with more customers signing up and RBOCs giving you the warranty for the whole bandwidth 7.5 Mbit/sec. Francly I think this is a lot of garbage. DSLAM is as much a statistical mux/demux as a cable, only cable is better, because it does not have a distance limitation and the allocated combined bandwidth could be easyly increased. If all ADSL subscribers connected to one DSLAM at the same time will try to see some video, which they suppose to receive lets say from AOL, the receiption speed will not be 7.5 Mbit/sec, but somewhat less, because the DSLAM's trunk can not support all users simultaneously.