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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:28:26 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Gerry Faulhaber <gerry-faulhaber () mchsi com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:04:00 -0400 To: dave () farber net Subject: video chat Dave [for IP]-- When the FCC imposed its condition on the AOL-Time Warner merger that they had to interoperate their Instant Messenging service once they offered a 2-way streaming video version of the service, there was much scoffing that professors and regulators were attempting to guess which way the market was going to develop, and they were just flat out wrong, etc., etc. I note the new popularity of "video chat", which is exactly the service we [ Gerry and I djf] foresaw during the merger analysis; apparently, both Microsoft and Apple have new products targetted at broadband users, reviewed today in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/technology/circuits/26stat.html. I guess the only thing we got wrong was that AOL-Time Warner wasn't the market leader in the new IM/video chat; instead, they seem to have frittered away their lead in IM features. Professor Gerald R. Faulhaber Business and Public Policy Dept. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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