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To: steve host who wrote (5675)	2/23/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Blazejay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

re: "AOL is not an "allternative" ATHM - they have no broadband access, so they will have to deal or be doomed to being a thing of the past." After hooking up ATHM, what's to prevent me from using the "cheaper" rates for bring-your-own access AOL ($9.95/mo) and piggyback on top of the ATHM broadband? Once I have the big pipe to my house, AOL software can just "run" through that pipe. To me, "ATHM vs. AOL" is a viable debate only if you're talking strictly about access fees & speed, and only if you're looking at AOL as just another ISP to get you connected to the net. "Content" debates are entirely different, and with that you have to open the competition to the entire web (Yahoo, etc). With each company I think it's important to draw that wide line between access to the web and content, because they're two entirely different businesses. After all, when I finally get ATHM hooked up, my default home page is still going to be http:/my.yahoo.com. :) I don't care where ATHM wants to drive me once I'm connected.

To: steve host who wrote (5675)	2/24/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: Michael P. Michaud	Respond to of 29970

steve, right now, broadband aol (through the cable pipe) costs $49.95 ($40 goes to ATHM for the pipe and ATHM content and $9.95 goes directly to aol for their "content" only....as you aren't hooking into aol through their routers, switches, modems, etc.) Aol says this isn't fair because they want consumers to be able to access aol's content using cable companies pipe without the consumer having to pay for ATHM's content (right now, for $40, the athm subscriber gets athm's content as well as the cable pipe.....how much each is worth separately is anyone's guess) So you are right in the sense that AOL is not an alternative to ATHM, but only because of the price..as you can see above, any athm user can access aol for an additional fee....Aol wants to see $40 divided between aol and the cable co. (for the pipe) which would leave no money to be shared with athm for the "content" which wouldn't be used by the subscriber who choses aol "content" Hope this is a little clearer Mike