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From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 05:59:44 -0400
BELL ATLANTIC PLANS, WITH ESCAPE HATCH With much fanfare, Bell Atlantic launched its $11 billion multimedia network, enlisting the aid of AT&T, General Instrument Corp. and Broadband Technologies Inc. (Wall Street Journal 5/20/94 B3) But Bell Atlantic's aggressive plans for providing movies on demand in Northern Virginia has an escape hatch. If consumers aren't interested after the first wave of interactive offerings, company executives say they will halt construction of the information superhighway. (St. Petersburg Times 5/22/94 A8) AD FLAMING WILL FLAME OUT, SAYS ADVERTISING AGE An Advertising Age editorial says that advertisers on the Internet should respect netiquette, by clearly labelling ads placed where users have the option of summoning more information, and predicts that as more professional and respectable advertisers move onto the Internet, some of the widely publicized anti-advertising "will begin to flame out." (Advertising Age 5/2/94 p.24)
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