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To: Neal davidson who wrote (9602)	5/19/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

biz.yahoo.com The FCC is confirming that they are on ice as far as deciding winners in the cable - DSL battle. They are indicating that they have to stay away and let the powers that be blast away at each other. This, of course, is the superior way. What would come out of such a decision if they stay with it, is that two markets will naturally form, the high end and the intermediate. DSL is maxed out in the intermediate so it can't take us to where we want to go. That requires the high end, but the high can't afford to throw itself up in weeks. Maybe not in years, so the intermediate market, DSL can serve an important function, an ushering function. It ports the public to the possibilities of true broadband and whets their appetites. Such an evolution satisfies all interests and so it will be what occurs. It might occur slowly though. All that needs to be done is to get those DSL prices down. They are the sticking point and it makes no sense since the supposed lost revenue can be recaptured in myriad ways. It just takes some entrepreneurial effort on the part of utility management. Ah, there's the rub, the PUCs will make sure DSL doesn't pay, so the public better muzzle their PUCs. Unfortunately that would go against the great tradition of paying the protection money. So the public can have something good or they can revel in the poverty of past mistaken idealism.