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To: don roberson who wrote (12258)	5/6/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: John Bissell	Respond to of 15313

Don: It will definately impact things, but it is so huge and so far out there in terms of time it really has no effect near-term on the stock. Let's face it, a ubiquitous broadband network is GOOD for FNTN, since it increases the capability to send out streaming video. It could actually go from an Intranet company to an Internet one. We all know that broadband is coming. Whether it is cable, XDSL, or some other mechanism, it is coming. The fact that Microsoft is pushing this is good. Left up to the telephone companies, we'd be left with expensive T1 lines and ISDN for the next decade. Because bandwidth will be a constraint on Microsoft's software sales, they are basically kicking the industry in the ass to make it happen. That type of driving force combined with their resources will speed things up, but we are probably still a year or two away from having it really roll out. No, it's up to FNTN in the near term to make things happen in their space if the stock is going to move...

To: don roberson who wrote (12258)	5/7/1999 12:01:00 PM
From: Wally	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15313

Don: re: AT&T/ Microsoft. This post is redundant for you since you already know my opinion on the subject, but please allow me to elaborate on my answer to the general thread. Remember, FNTN is not in competition with technology developers. On the contrary - the benefit from each technological development allows FNTN greater and better access to - and for their clients. FNTN's stated mission is to embrace new technology and adapt it to their own system to supply better and wider offerings. FNTN packages these off-the-shelf technologies, builds customized internal structures and sells them to vertical markets - and that's what the practical World needs - a way to apply these breakthroughs to the real World. So as John Bissell mentioned, the merging of these technology titans could actually be beneficial to FNTN as well as others. As for the potential of competition, be it large or small, so what? We already know that the Technology Universe is expanding even faster than the technology to fill it. We know that a small phone company can survive and thrive in the shadow of AT&T. In this arena, reality has taught us that demand is way ahead of supply- partially because there are an abundance of technology developers but a shortage of implementers. FNTN is an implementer. So as of this writing and IMO, well into the next century, there appears to be plenty of room in the house for everybody. Wally