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To: ahhaha who wrote (8590)	4/25/1999 1:22:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Respond to of 29970

Ahhaha, all your thoughts are logically correct. FCC could do this and that because they see this or that can happen. But the matter of the fact is that FCC at this moment is not interested enough to thwart AT&T's potentially monopoly movement. FCC did know the difference between BB Internet and BB Telephony, but they chose to ignore the difference at this moment. FCC is more interested in causing a dent in RBOC's monopoly with the help of AT&T than confronting AT&T with another stupid regulation. FCC is not going to do anything this time. In FCC's eye, AT&T is positioning themselves as a potential monopoly power, but AT&T has not yet become one by either acquire MediaOne or combining RR and ATHM. FCC don't feel the need to do anything before AT&T actually becomes a monopoly with 60 million cable modem subscribers. Would you spank a kid because you think he may become a bully later? NO, you punish him only if actually become one. It's easy for FCC to break up AT&T's cable again, or even break up AT&T into pieces, why bother to do it now??? The cable modem market is still too small to justify a monopoly concern. Armstrong is not a fool. He knows that he can escape FCC scrutiny at this time, so he can take a risk. Armstrong reads Willian Kennard's mind.