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To: RocketMan who wrote (15699)	5/7/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

RocketMan, re:"AOL might become like the HBO of cable.." Hi Rocket Man, By the way, I want to see something you wrote that is worthy of national press ;-) First, none of these deals are approved by the FTC, yet. Second, in the spirit of the AT&T breakup and Tele Act., I don't think the government will allow AT&T to control any one access point. If AOL becomes the HBO of cable... that is just fine with me. As long as I pay a fair access price to AT&T to use the cable and they don't charge me for other services I don't want. Another interesting thing that this deal will do is to further close that local access door via the LEC and RBOC. The LEC's and RBOC's will also want to provide dial-tone over the cable... AT&T will probably resist and each will politically and technologically fortify their physical media. It behoves each to give access to each other, otherwise they are just shooting themselves in the foot, and the consumer will lose. JMO Jon :)