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To: Jing Qian who wrote (7319)	4/5/1999 7:07:00 AM
From: Educator	Respond to of 29970

Jing- The demand for @Home is music to my ears. I am glad @Home is hiring as many techs and sales reps. as possible. They must simply be overwhelmed. You can understand how time-consuming it can be when they have to run wire all over one's home from floor-to-floor. If it would speed things up, I would run the cable to my computer for TCI! When having more than one cable connected TV (without paying) was taboo, I was running cable all over my house. I probably own more cable installation tools than TCI and Comcast put together. I am currently wired to five TVs, and there are only three of us in the house. I have my eyes set on wiring two more locations. I keep my eyes on the market at all times. It drives my family crazy! Thanks again for the post, Jing! Ed

To: Jing Qian who wrote (7319)	4/5/1999 8:20:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The entire sector is going to get crushed by this shortage unless they buckle down and outsource the technical issues to competent service orgs. There is no way they are going to painlessly bootstrap the necessary skills in house during the coming demand squeeze. To think otherwise is foolish and to hop onto the denial curve, something the cable industry is good at but must learn to avoid, going forward. Whereas outsourcing may seem like a more expensive approach at first glance, it will save them untold grief and consumer relations problems down the road, while allowing the MSOs to backfill over time with their own staff adjustments.