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To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (6128)	3/4/1999 7:10:00 PM
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CABLE Modem's prospect (from CNET)and I trust Steve Case's judgement: Cable broadband still slowed by other issues Cable broadband services are not going to magically appear as a result of today's announcement. About 520,000 households now subscribe to a cable modem service. That compares to around 15 million customers of America Online's dial-up modem service. Leading cable providers include @Home and RoadRunner. However, Dataquest predicts the cable modem market to 2.4 million by 2002. Those subscription numbers will start picking up with the deployment of standards-based cable modems, but a number of issues remain in getting high-speed service to consumers. For one, cable companies are still building out the links between homes and the cable company's offices. According to Kagan estimates, TCI, the largest cable operator, will only have between 50 to 60 percent of homes in its service areas ready for two-way communications by the end of 1999; Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable operator, expects to have 85 percent of its homes ready during that same time period, with overall industry numbers pegged at around 40 percent by other analysts. Once two-way networks are in place, there is still the matter of putting more equipment in place in the cable plant so that service can actually be turned on to customers. "There's a lot more work ahead," Leslie Ellis, senior analyst of broadband technologies at Paul Kagan Associates. news.com