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To: Crossy who wrote (11594)	6/26/2001 10:18:35 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) of 12823

Crossy- Thanks for the discussion on broadband. Opposing opinions are welcome by me. "My view is that the Telecom Act of 96 doesn't go far enough." Ouch. So thousands of pages of rules and regulations, tens of millions of lawyers fees, and six years didn't go far enough? I say the basic premise is flawed. Government is not good at creating business. All over the world unbundling is mandated actively.. Maybe so, but where has it worked? From what I gather Europe is no better off creating ILEC fighting business than the USA. It's funny but my "ultimate goal" is not broadband at its fastest as I think your goal is but COMPETITION IN BROADBAND. Otherwise you will end up the "metered access" route faster than you can pay your bills. The "toll box" at the last mile can only be swept away by competition. My feelings exactly too! And I don't want to see the USA in a situation such as Europe is in--Metered access. My feeling is Europe is in metered access because government was deep into telecom to the point of ownership. In the USA, it has always cost less for telecom services because private industry owned the networks. "You will have noticed that finally (NOW !) the ILECs are deploying xDSL faster. Now, in a time when the "ill fated 96 act" is still valid. Who told you that you get cheap competitive broadband in 3 years ? Why tear down the 96 act when it'S finally working ??" Well you have a point about DSL finally rolling out. But IMO it had nothing to do with 96 Telecom Act. It had to do with ILECs killing competition and ILECs finally facing up to the only real competition they ever had--Cablecos. When cablecos got their act together, ILECs have to fight. My fear is more 96 Telecom Act thinking will end up putting ILECs in court against the Cablecos instead of on the streets rolling out broadband. -MikeM(From Florida)

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