Interesting Offer from Earthlink

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duston, Hal [mailto:hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:10 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Interesting Offer from Earthlink
> 
> 
> Dustin Decker [mailto:dustind at moon-lite.com] wrote:
> --snip--
> > Anyway, the jest of the whole thing is that Earthlink will 
> > now be offering cable Internet access - and it looks like 
> > they'll be doing it using the Time Warner cable 
> > infrastructure.  $41.95 a month
> --snip--
> > Mixed feelings here - good to see that Time Warner is 
> > open to competition, if indeed that's what this is...
> > Dustin
> 
> I've also noticed commercials on television for 
> AOL broadband.  It is offered through Time Warner Cable 
> as well.
One would hope so, since AOL and TWC are one company now.
;')

Then of course the Earthlink-TWC deal goes back to Nov 2000. A deal TWC
struck to appease the FTC to allow the merger to happen.

<cynicism>
Any one care to guess which shell the coin is under?
</cynicism>

Brian