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- From: <GREMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Strategic Partner for North America.
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:43:40 EST
- Organization: City University of New York/University Computer Center
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- AT should consider an Internet service provider. America On Line,
- AT&T, MCI, Sprint, or a Baby Bell.
- This year, the Internet service business is going to get very
- competative, thanks to the new Telecoms deregulation bill. As has
- been commented on by the Wall Street Jurnal, Barrons, and others,
- there is likely to be something of a shake out as to the number of
- service providers the market will support. The winners will most
- likely be those who have something beyond minimal servies to offer.
- Why not a nice cheap hardware/software package to access the net
- with? Say an Amiga 1200 Surfer. Sign up for 6 months of NYNEX
- net services and get the NYNEX Amiga Surfer for just ten easy payments
- of $49.95/month (NYNEX wouldn't have to make a profit on the Amiga, they
- are selling there service). Or rent the thing to subscribers like they
- used to rent phones. The billing structure is allready there.
- AT gets an toe in the door of NA telecoms, deep pockets to fund marketing
- in NA, even(in AT&Ts case and some of the baby bells) in house manufacturing
- and service capacity. Also important is what they don't get. They don't
- get competition in retail should Escom like to move into NA at some point.
- There are other options available to the various net access providers for
- a hardware/software bundle, but the Amiga because has some advantages.
- produced in quantity, the Amiga architecture is still a fundamentaly cheaper
- way of getting good graphics ability out of less silicon. The clones
- get there low cost out of economies of scale, not because the are
- intrinsicly cheaper architectures. The Amiga technologie is a cheaper
- route to the set top box than it's clone equivelents. When the baby
- bells finaly get around to video on demand services (currently
- receiding forever into the future), it would be easyer to addapt an
- existing in house technology than to create an set top box out of whole
- cloth. Looked at that way, the provision of net service with with a
- hardware/software component becomes a bridge to the fiber optic cable
- video holy grail that the baby bells have been trying to get into without
- much success.
- I think it's a natural. AT, if you are interested, I know some people
- at NYNEX? It would help if we knew what your wishes are in regard to the
- "Strategic Partner".
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