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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (20718)	6/7/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 41369

To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (20718)	6/7/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

J.Cicconi on CNBC. A big joke. It is clear what ATT legal strategy will be. In a nutshell, equate the Cable/Broadband to the Telecom Act of 1996. Cicconi said that courts in small municipalities cannot legislate on the cable issue and they will be overturned in the same way that a court which ruled that the 1996 Telecom Act was unconstitutional was overturned. Cicconi is quite confused: The Telecom Act had to do with OPENING the airwaves to competitors. A noble idea, gg. That's America. The ATT approach is to hog and close competition in what can now be considered a COMMON CARRIER commodity: fiberoptic cable. At the same time Cicconi talks from both sides of his mouth and says that " ATT recognizes the need to be open, ( gg can you believe that? ), and " wants to talk to AOL and others about how to do it ". Yeah, right, TA