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To: KailuaBoy who wrote (8509)	4/23/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Why not ask Jermoluk that question since he tried desperately to get them to merge. It could be said that his attempt was motivated to keep copper away, but the real intent was to increase effective subscriber mass quickly and to eliminate a future competitor. Specifically if you have two providers who haven't penetrated the potential market so that they are trying to win the same customers, they aren't directly competing. Eventually they will, since no one doubts the ubiquity of cable broadband. Are you suggesting that they could continue to operate and grow without collision? T sure doesn't think so. Avoidance of competitive confrontation is part of the on-going stupidity of corporate and public America. They both love and hate competition. It is built on baseless fear and irrational extrapolations. It is competition that forces you and I to improve over our best judgement. Eliminate competition and you get poorer. Maintain it and you complain all the way to the bank.