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Cable Wars
Steve Gibson
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Mentioned the other day that AOL is looking to hook up with AT&T Cable... well Microsoft isnt very cool with that idea since it would mean AOL has like 40% of the US market. They are gonna do something about it. It's almost amusing to see Microsoft trying to make sure someone else doesnt manage to get a monopoly of a market ya know?

With its cash pile of more than $50 billion, Microsoft could well afford to acquire the AT&T division itself, but the software company had no interest in entering the cable business

I havent been watching the wars lately but last I saw the independent DSL companies were having some real issues. Although phone companies deploying their own DSL systems have been doing fine. Anyone seen some recent relevant numbers on where the market is now?

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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