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WEAKNESSES Needs to make difficult transition to the high-speed broadband...
...BROADBAND PLAY The merger with Excite is a bid to bring At Home's high-speed service to millions of new customers. Backing of AT&T and cable guys (TCI, Time Warner) is critical...
...fact, the hidden victory of the WorldCom deal is that it gives AOL a technological leg up. WorldCom is building bigger pipes--broadband, in the parlance--over which AOL can push a richer service. Although some industry watchers see broadband as a weapon for rivals like cable companies to use against AOL, Case naturally holds the opposite view that his product will be more effective in a new era. If AOL can attract 12 million users just with snappy graphics and chat, imagine what it will be able to do with full-motion video and stereo sound...
Comcast needs a bigger pipeline than conventional cable--called broadband in the industry--to handle that load, and Microsoft can help finance it. "By developing a broadband pipe, connecting it to a state-of-the-art chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
Beyond online publishing we've not even grazed the surface of broadband media in the discussion. Not to mention that our example is currently impossible, as the New York Times is entangled in a legal spaghetti that hinders them from setting up shop on the Infobahn then a limited manner...