[9904] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: networkMCI ads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Wed Jan 26 08:37:30 1994
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:09:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean McLinden <sean@dsl.pitt.edu>
To: Dave Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com>
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, compriv <com-priv@psi.com>,
In-Reply-To: <m0pOzsZ-0008R2C@oldcolo.com>
On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Dave Hughes wrote:
> By the time TCI and Bell Atlantic get their stuff together,
> half the US will *already* have figured out how to 'talk
> back.' And *somebody* will have come on compriv to announce
> the latest 'virtual-communications' service, using wireless,
> and helmets, moving alpha brain waves generated by just
> thinking. i.e. 'esp'
Right on, here. Having worked with Bell Atlantic and TCI at many
technical and administrative levels over the past 8 years it is
*astounding* what these pretenders to the "data superhighway" lack in
terms of an understanding of the potential of this market. Given how
many bright people are employed by Ray Smith and John Malone I can only
conclude that their internal corporate communications must be a whole lot
worse than what they are pandering to the marketplace. A few years ago I
heard a Bell Atlantic researcher turned marketeer saying that Bell
Atlantic's new telecommunications "strategy" was that they were going
make the proof of the pudding in the eating by using the same
technologies for their internal network as their customer networks.
I still haven't figured out who lost worse on that one.
Sean
