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To: Neal Hopper who wrote (15246)	2/19/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: Charlie Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21342

Neal: The "content" providers are nothing more than a giant Maginot line. Look at what MP3 is doing to the music business. The internet is all about disintermediating people who hoard information. AOL doesn't really provide content anyway. They act more as a clearing house and an organizer/link to content providers. Their success has much less to do with the "programming" they provide than the fact that they were first with the easiest ramp to the WEB. Monolithic content is waaay overrated, IMO. Charlie

To: Neal Hopper who wrote (15246)	2/19/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Respond to of 21342

neal-- here is something that might be helpful to you...it was to me...stop reading wired. this bandwidth and information want to be free crap is older than the hills and totally wrong. heres the problem with free bandwidth...no one wants to pay for the upkeep. and if bandwidth is free, everyone gets to be a content provider. so, you get overloaded with content that shouldnt be out there in the first place. unless the government takes over the pipeline. if that happens all bets are off, and we will get an inconsistent network, kind of like the interstate highway system. depending on what VDSL and more advanced systems will be able to do, wired infrastructure will likely be abandoned in the next 10-20 years in favor of advanced wireless (and when i say advanced...i am looking at stuff that makes the most advanced PCS system today look like bells original phone compared to a digital PBX) what i think you might not be seeing is that everything can be commoditized. x86 processors, news, bandwidth, everything. but just because its a commodity doesnt mean you cant make money. good luck to all, trey