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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (4377)6/29/1999 9:52:00 AM
From: Doughboy   of 12823
 
MikeM, correction: both Quello and Hundt are former FCC Commissioners, so their comments are worth about as much as the paper that they were written on (or worth about as much as the particular party may have paid them to speak). Quello is an especially peculiar figure. He was known as being a bit erratic and unpredictable (if not a bit loony sometimes), but he must have known where the bodies were buried because he survived through numerous administrations at the FCC.

As for substance, I think there's a bit of truth in both statements. The FCC and DOJ will take a long hard look at Qwest/US West, especially because the two of them have been trying to pull a fast one on the FCC for a couple of years by having a joint local/LD marketing arrangement which the FCC recently put the final nail in the coffin on. While it is true that 271/272 appears to allow US West to provide LD service through a separate subsidiary, forgoing the LD revenue is not a method contemplated by the Telecom Act, as far as I'm aware. So not only does US West have to forgo the LD revenue in its region, Qwest has to structure the deal in such a way that USW and Qwest's boards and employees and revenues don't mix at all. That's a substantially more difficult corporate structure than Global's proposal, IMO.

Doughboy.
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