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To: elmatador who wrote (4474)	7/6/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

elmatador, after reading several references to this which you have posted both here and on other boards, you seem to be overly concerned for some reason with the significance of the WCOM 82 city agenda. They and CSCO (which is news to me, by the way) will have plenty of competition to keep them busy if what you say is true. As for the municipalities, in many, most cases they don't have the resources needed to do many of the things on a par with the PSTN carriers and the Internet's NSPs, but they do in some cases have some superb intramural rings established for their own needs in the way of I-Nets. In the main, however, they still use very pedestrian methods where they might be viewed as a potential threat in supplanting the public service providers. In some parts of the country they did make some attempts but were merely good for reproducing white elephants, since they really fall short when it comes to operating competitively priced and maintained infrastructures, compared to those of the incumbents and their newly arrived competitors. I wouldn't be overly concerned of place too much weight in this. Several munis, about three or four years ago, did some interesting things with respect to condemnation of public rights of way, taking them over and building conduit systems in the streets which were to be used ostensibly to offer conduit capacity to public carriers. Anaheim, Houston, Palo Alto are a few that come to mind. I'm NOT referring to institutional I-Nets, here, rather, I'm referring to actual additions to their public highway and other infrastructure to support conduits to be used by the common carriers. These initiatives haven't stopped the ILECs and CLECs from their expansion plans, in fact it's actually assisted them in some cases. I'll review the agenda of the conference you posted and see if there were any significant fallout items that ensued from it at the time (back in March), and report back. Thanks for bringing it to the board. There are some interesting items contained in it, particularly the one that addresses the regulation and administration of dark fiber infrastructure buildouts. Very interesting. Regards, Frank Coluccio