Sender: samuel david winer <•••@••.•••>
Cyber Righters,
I honestly believe that AT&T's decision to become an ISP was planned long
ago. While I am not a lobbyist or a journalist, I have no doubt that they
bought the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 and that monopolization
of the Internet was part of the plan. Even if Reed Hundt and the FCC
limit their market share here in America, it won't matter. They have such
huge international business that they essentially will be the Internet
even if they don't actually own the nodes. As I see it, there is no way
that America Online, Compuserve, IQuest and others will be able to match
the AT&T offer; So, they will have to find niche markets such as catering
to graphic artists. I hate to see the return of monopolization, but we
knew that was coming sooner or later.
Dave
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