[9909] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: networkMCI ads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Wed Jan 26 13:21:05 1994
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:17:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Sean McLinden <sean@dsl.pitt.edu>
Cc: Dave Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com>, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>,
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9401260723.A16913-0100000@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Sean McLinden wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
I just hope that the BA/TCI merger can help TCI get more on the ball. As
for our LOCAL TCI-Cable office... their answer to ANY complaints is "We just
distribute what we get", even when the complaint is that they didn't.
Of course there aren't many individual cable-TV subscribers with the
"pull" that a mega-buck corporation can have.
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
