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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4480)7/6/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Thanks Frank. If by 'wiring' 85 cities one company has access to three-quarters of America's business telecommunications network and businesses accounts for 80% of carrier revenue, I concluded that Worldcom is implementing metro-networks to skim the cream of the market.

Going further, with the voice traffic and fax ported out of the PSTN -imagine it now the bulk of this traffic running over IP-based metro networks and the backbones connecting those 85 cities- raises some questions:

How that old lady in Nebraska is going to get her public telephone service?

Taking into consideration that local calls were cross-subsidized by the long distance and by overcharging the business user, the scenario Worldcom depicts above leaves us with the question how will public communications will be financed?

Trying to find an answer, I looked to the municipality initiative: Could be Plain Old Telephone Public Service be provided by the municipality, in a similar way they provide us with water and sewage treatment?

Mentioning Cisco in the above context was because Cisco's wants the enterprise to use extranets to connect to suppliers, customers, partners and employees. Cisco provides LAN/WAN gear for the enterprise, the enterprise can extend their networks solutions (VPN's) into the homes of its employees, in this case Cisco is part of the Worldcom scenario.

Kind Regards
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