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To: Benkea who wrote (20518)	6/6/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Pruguy	Respond to of 41369

This is largely due to its' size, but it WILL also be dragged down AT LEAST SOMEWHAT by real competition with deep pockets and familiar names. As I have said before, T and MSFT have been competing as hard as they can since 1995. They haven't been a factor yet and I don't have any shred of evidence to believe thay will be a factor in the future... Add up all the msft and t internet subscribers together, multiply it by 5 and youcome close to matching aol's numbers. This is too big a hole to catch up from....I don't see them having any real chance of de-throning them....T really has only one viable strategy in order to keep from being a distant memory and they are playing as best as they can....They are faced with one choice and that is to buy market share.....The game for them is not to become number one, but to stay in business.....without this radical change in strategy, T would be nothing but a textbook case of how a company didn't keep up with the times....The DOw Jones is littered with other examples of this since it was started 100 years ago.