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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2786)	11/6/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) of 9818

(so they say) Telephone firms ready for Y2K news.com Telephone companies around the world have taken sufficient precautions to protect themselves from the millennium computer bug, industry leaders told a conference on yesterday. [...] However, other experts are not so sure. Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, told Reuters earlier this year, that there was a big difference between the attitude of big companies like BT, and countries like South Korea. According to Anderson, BT bought telephone hardware in the late 1980s and has spent around $829 million to thwart the bug. South Korea bought similar equipment and has spent nothing because it sees no problem. "They can't both be right," Anderson said.

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