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To: Pashoe1 who wrote (318)	5/11/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: ynot	Respond to of 3519

300,000 where did you get that number?

To: Pashoe1 who wrote (318)	5/11/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: proud dad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3519

I am reporting this to the SEC,I suggest everyone else do also! This is blatant manipulation.It is criminal and I'm tired f this S---!

To: Pashoe1 who wrote (318)	5/11/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: FrozenZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3519

Free internet service has been tried by several companies in the U.S. and as far as I know, no one has been able to make it work. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the concept requires at least one million subscribers to reach critical mass for advertisers. Could someone tell me why x-stream will work where others have failed. I'm hoping it will.

To: Pashoe1 who wrote (318)	5/11/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3519

"...the way this company does business (free internet) is the future and AOL's is the past." Not necessarily. Check out this article from "Wired News": "Free ISPs Taking Over in UK" wired.com There have been a number of U.S. companies that have failed after attempting to execute a business plan that included free Internet access. The "Wired" article notes that the UK ISPs have a significant advantage over their U.S. counterparts. While they hope to generate revenues from banner advertising, they also receive a revenue cut from the phone companies: "Thanks to the regulatory setup, British telecom carriers have to share a slice of the revenue from modem dial-up calls with the ISPs. In effect, the "free" ISPs get about 30 to 90 pence (about 49 cents to US$1.47) from the phone company for each hour a surfer spends online. No such arrangement exists in the United States; free American ISPs live and die by the ad revenue they can scrounge. It's no surprise, then, that in a country where an hour of even local calling costs a mini-fortune, a free ISP would have enormous appeal."