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To: Ron Dior who wrote (10705)	6/7/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: chirodoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

ron i agree with you and oregonians are a contrary indicator.... T (and ATHM) wins either way....... in the long run if ATT shares its pipes they will make money on every bit that flows thru them--money for T that can go to ATHM. if FCC overturns portland, T and ATHM wins. i bet armstrong is pissed but will not change his charge into broadband. my risk averse net money is with T--i think they win either way, unless you think we will end up being a socialst state with the gov telling T how much they can charge. think about it--FCC has said open access--republican congress with the possbility of a republican president--oregon is out of the loop. don't forget that oregon legalized mercy killing--kevorkian must have listened to them, and now he is in jail! my money uses oregonians as a contrary indicator--it has been very accurate in the past. curtis

To: Ron Dior who wrote (10705)	6/7/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Good post.

To: Ron Dior who wrote (10705)	6/7/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Neal Hopper	Respond to of 29970

Ron,, <<Like I said before, EVENTUALLY open access could be a good thing, but not within the next 5 years. >>> I could not agree more. AT&T has done more to reshape the future of advance Telcom services than any other telecom development in the last couple of decades.. The RBOCs are all hot air when it comes to addressing the future of their narrowband network. The truth is they (the one I work for)would rather send 12 billion dollars over seas to buy a Brasillian Telephone company with 1 million access lines then spend the money at home building infrastructure. 2 Now that AT&T is addressing what the consumer is asking for. The RBOCs have jumped in panic mode big time. Typical reactive versus proactive. The truth is the RBOCs had their chance. 1) they had the first high speed product consumer product on the market. But rather than address what the consumer was asking for; they priced the garbage out of the market. 2) they let the whole internet access market fly right by them. The company I work for was elated that their ISP was growing at 20%.Yet the industry was growing 5 times as fast. Now they are telling everyone how they are going to double access accounts in 6 months. (i wouldnt put any money on that bet)5 Let AT&T build infrastructure to force the RBOCs to pay attention to the customer. The final lesson the RBOCs need to learn is that the future of the Telecom biz is not network services. They need to figure out how to "get your piece of the 28 trillion dollar ecommerce market"..