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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (11596)	6/26/2001 10:33:54 AM
From: Crossy	Read Replies (1) of 12823

Mike, here in Europe, our equivalents of the FCC are way more swift in their case rulemaking to finally get those incumbents to the competition realities. The fact that each incumbent is playing CLEC in other state is another pro-competitive angle. Look at Telinor/Telia. Their ISP offerings are called Nextra. Nextra is giving our incumbnet (NYSE: TKA) the hell. They brought out the only real flat ADSL plan that I know of. It's around $200 per month and its more geared to business but my clients love it. Costs less than the old ISDN lines we put in service back then. IF ILECs are uncooperative and stall then our "regulator" slaps fines on them. Can be quite hefty. So they better get their const structure and mindset in. Don't get me wrong, I don't favour more regulation. It's just that in industries perceived as "natural monopolies" when you "open it up" you cannot get it totally unregulated, at least not initially. Our regulators power will fall off or a at least be greatly diminished if market share of the incumbent drops below a certain thershold.. Your are right on that "governmentr ownership issues" But now they are seperate entities and as far as I can tell you the regulators are really trying here to rein in the incumbent powers: just look at the charts of German Telecom, BT, TKA and others. Here the incumbents share the fate of your CLECs <g> DSL finally rolling out HAS somethin to do with the 96 act - I'm under the impression that before cable was forbidden to offer telecom and vice versa. In fact that I don't even think (unlike you) that it has to do with ILECs killin competition. It's only now that ILECs feel they MUST act. With or without CLECs. With or without the telecom act. They must do now or cable with take away their meal. Hehe. And in such a situation, why change the telecom act then ? From those ashes a number of nex-en CLECs may rise and finally crush those ILECs at their own deployment thru unbundling and cherry picking. Geared at business, not consumers.. rgds CROSSY

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