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Technology Stocks : Global Crossing - GX (formerly GBLX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (1118)	6/10/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

<< No, you do not. >> Thanks, Dad. Yes I do. QWST is a better partner for GBLX than FRO. They have significantly greater assets including huge expansion capacity, major foreign fiber assets, and ownership stakes in DSL-LECs and BBFW. BLS is a better RBOC partner for GBLX than USW, esp. with BLS's strong Lat-Am assets. Your Gilder-originated FRO hype is great. FRO's network "the most advanced terrestrial fiber optic network on the planet"? - The FRO network, a subset of the QWST U.S. network, is capped at 24 fibers. QWST has 48 fibers and expansion capability up to ~1000 fibers. - QWST owns fiber thoughout Mexico, Canada, and Europe. FRO? - Whatever FRO has done to differentiate their fiber infrastructure from QWST they've done in the last 12-18 months. That's not a huge lead assuming they have one, esp. with the accelerating pace of fiber optic innovation and how early we are in the race. --- << These giant server 'farms' host arrays of Sun computers that perform 60% of all Internet searches and 70% of all online financial messages and house 300 of the top 500 Internet sites. >> Are these figures for FRO or for SUN?