AOL Time Warner Netscape CNN... and AT&T?

Baldrson noted a bit running on Yahoo right now where the AOL, Time, Warner, Netscape, CNN mega corporation is in talks with AT&T for their cable network. The inevitable and scary consolidation continues ever onward. The US govt will be sold on eBay in a few years, but only Microsoft and the corporation formerly known as Netscape AOL Warner CNN AT&T Time (NAWCAT) will be left to bid. But since Nawcat will already own ebay, there will no doubt be rumors of unfair play.

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if this goes thru

[alumshubby]

...does it mean that AOL would finally have enough bandwidth that it wouldn't have response problems during peak usage times? That's one of the frustrations I had with using it.

Re:Isn't RR/TimeWarner to Open to Competitors?

[spudnic]

Are you unhappy with RR? I move around a lot, so I've had everything from 64k ISDN, 128k ISDN, DSL, @home, and now Road Runner.

Road Runner is the best by far. Maybe it's just this area, but I have only had one problem in the last 8 months since I moved here, and that was only for about an hour.

Speed is consistantly fast, I can connect to my machine to do anything I want from the outside, and news groups just fly.

A guy I work with (a non-tech) was aking if he should switch from dial-up to cable.

He said, "I bet you can download a lot of dirty pictures over cable."

I responded, "I don't download dirty pictures anymore."

He looked a bit confused and asked, "Really?"

I said, "No, now I download dirty MOVIES!"

He ordered it that afternoon.

Re:Come and have a go if you think you're hard eno

[jayhawk88]

Oh well, better luck in 2004, guys.

2004? What the hell are you talking about? The next election is in 1984. I hear Reagan is going to promise no new taxes, and...

Oh, wait, your right, it is 2001. Sorry, with everything going on over here, I got a little confused.