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Byline: Steven Levy
One of the tougher jobs in high tech is making a transition from a dying technology to a thriving one. Such is the task of Garry Betty, CEO of one of the nation's oldest Internet service providers. Without benefit of a built-in wire to people's homes (an advantage of the telcos and cable companies), he has to move his base from dial-up service to broadband. (Currently only 1.7 million of his customers are high-speed; he has 2.1 million dial-up customers as well as 1.4 million low-price dial-up customers from the former People PC company.) Betty is looking forward to voice-over-Internet schemes, mobile phones (like an investment with Helio, a youth-oriented start-up begun by EarthLink's founder, Sky Dayton) and providing...
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