Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) >AT&T is proably corner the market and put a big squeez on >the other internet services Remember when AT&T first entered the PC clone market? Everybody figured they could take it over because of their deep pockets, but their offering went the way of the TI Professional and most of the other clones. Remember when people thought Microsoft Network would put AOL and CompuServe out of business? AT&T is an upstart. They have to offer an attractive startup package in order to bootstrap the service, but their market share is currently 0% and there is no way that they are going to "corner the market" so long as it remains essentially unregulated. Some people will panic over AT&T's entry announcements just as people panicked over Microsoft's entry announcement. But we need to adopt a wait-and-see attitude if we're going to avoid running around like Chicken Little. AT&T is just one more player in the game, and it's getting interesting. Glen Raphael (who wonders when Sprint and MCI will jump into the fray...) -- Glen Raphael, •••@••.••• NewtPaint - the Newton paint program! President, Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh User's Group (SMUG) <A HREF="http://www.batnet.com/liberty/">Glen's World</A><BR> ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
