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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (3518)	5/2/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks, Ken. There is certainly no shortage of such articles in the press these days. It's getting somewhat tedious going through them all hoping that some of them will offer a glimmer of new information. More often than not, it's more of the same. It's as though evey publication has its quota of dsl-cable articles it needs to publish daily, weekly. And the quality of those articles seems never to get better. Errors proliferate, uncontested, and readers are led into a new jargon of terms such as broadband, dcl, etc. Witness, from you referenced article in the upstream post: "Cable vs. DCL:* Which one will get you on the Internet faster?*" DCL, indeed. >The major advantage of cable is not speed, but cost.< I've given this idea some thought at times. How much of the cost issue is due to subsidies, where MSOs are betting on the come of e-commerce bounties, as a means to offset present liabilities? See my recent piece of devil's advocacy over in the ATHM thread, where I've introduced some controversial ideas surrounding this subject. I would be interested in hearing your views, and the views of others here in the LM, on the points which I've raised there. Message 9270907 Regards, Frank Coluccio