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To: FIRENZA who wrote (10409)6/5/1999 2:05:00 AM
From: E. Davies  Respond to of 29970
 
AT&T and AOL: Separated at Birth?
The phone company's got the cable. The Web company's got the content. It could be a beautiful relationship.

Inside America Online's sprawling headquarters in rural Virginia, there is a widely held belief that there will be no mass market for broadband Internet services until AOL (AOL) says so.

The rest at:
thestandard.com

It concludes with this (similar to what Ahhaha and I were just discussing):

What [AtHome and Road Runner] are at the end of the day is … the cable industry trying to figure out what to do with its transport system," he says. "I believe they will eventually be the transport system that enables ISPs to use cable systems as a data network."

Eric



To: FIRENZA who wrote (10409)6/5/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29970
 
The FCC must stand away. If they wander into this one, it could invite the wrath of Congress. The FCC has to stop exercising so liberally their newly won power. They may find that Congress is still on the side of the people and not on the side of swaggering corporations.