telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (07/06/89)
Are Dow Jones and AT&T {thisclose} to making a deal on a national computerized
information service?
Is the only impediment right now waiting for his honor to give the green
light to AT&T?
Will it take the form of a daily newspaper delivered to the spools of
subscribers; at their home, their office or wherever?
Will it also function a lot like Dow Jones News Retrieval does now, where
people can call in to read the news, markets, weather and other features?
Will it be on an 800 number, with charges for time on line billed to your
AT&T card?
Is AT&T so certain that his honor will give them permission to enter this
new venture that the technical details with Dow Jones are almost in place,
allowing a start up within days or a month at most once the judge has
delivered himself of the ruling?
Just asking. Just a few innocent questions to fill up some space in the
Digest.
Inquiring Moderator,
Patrick Townsonzank@apple.uucp (Mathew Zank) (07/11/89)
-And will it cost a arm and a leg. Like Dow Jones is now. Or will it be a flat rate deal? [Moderator's Note: I dunno. Are you asking, or telling? I've heard it was to be 'competitively priced', whatever that means. I guess we will get all the specifics from AT&T/Dow Jones when they finally make up their mind. PT]