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To: zalesky who wrote (15502)	5/7/1999 6:17:00 AM
From: Vendit™	Respond to of 41369

For over a year, AOL executives have reiterated their optimism that high-speed, constant Web connections will come from all directions -- not just cable, but high-speed phone lines, satellite transmission and wireless devices. They combine such public pronouncements with traditional back-room political arm-twisting in Washington D.C. to press cable operators to open networks to Internet services like AOL. Paradoxically, AT&T's growing power over the cable industry -- and the potential this could trigger a regulatory outcry or even a legislative response -- could indirectly boost chances AOL and AT&T will strike a deal. Its impasse with AT&T may push America Online to forge closer ties with U.S. Baby Bell companies that can provide it with high-speed Internet connections over standard phone lines using a rival technology to cable modems known as DSL. Already, America Online has agreed to such deals with Bell Atlantic Corp. and SBC Communications Inc., the nation's two largest suppliers of local phone service. But AOL has stressed that this is part of a strategy to embrace all methods of high-speed Internet delivery. dailynews.yahoo.com