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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here

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To: elmatador who wrote (10079)1/7/2001 1:41:24 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
"The entire situation presents a depressing picture for Internet service providers in Texas," Robertson said. "If they could provide the service they're required to by the Federal Communications Commission and Public Utilities Commission of Texas, there wouldn't be a problem."

elmatador and Frank- In a parallel conversation we are having on the NFCTF thread my reply to the above is this...

If it was not for the government trying to regulate the ISPs into being successful, then there would be tremendous incentive for SBC(ASI is a subsidiary of) to get DSL right. Today it's quite the opposite case.

If SBC wasn't so shortsighted, they should have been supporting ATT's fight against forced access. Instead they took the opposite tactic and supported the ISPs who now they feel the wrath of(behind the government mandates). So IMO SBC got themselves in this problem they now face.

Maybe SBC will do a 100% turnabout on the forced access issue ala Steve Case(after AOL became a MSO). They just need to realize the real enemy is cable and not the CLECs anymore. -MikeM(From Florida)
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