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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4480)	7/6/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks Frank. If by 'wiring' 85 cities one company has access to three-quarters of America's business telecommunications network and businesses accounts for 80% of carrier revenue, I concluded that Worldcom is implementing metro-networks to skim the cream of the market. Going further, with the voice traffic and fax ported out of the PSTN -imagine it now the bulk of this traffic running over IP-based metro networks and the backbones connecting those 85 cities- raises some questions: How that old lady in Nebraska is going to get her public telephone service? Taking into consideration that local calls were cross-subsidized by the long distance and by overcharging the business user, the scenario Worldcom depicts above leaves us with the question how will public communications will be financed? Trying to find an answer, I looked to the municipality initiative: Could be Plain Old Telephone Public Service be provided by the municipality, in a similar way they provide us with water and sewage treatment? Mentioning Cisco in the above context was because Cisco's wants the enterprise to use extranets to connect to suppliers, customers, partners and employees. Cisco provides LAN/WAN gear for the enterprise, the enterprise can extend their networks solutions (VPN's) into the homes of its employees, in this case Cisco is part of the Worldcom scenario. Kind Regards

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4480)	7/6/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Looking for info on how CDMA, TDMA, GSM standard wars are shaping up in USA cellular market. Would appreciate any and all links.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4480)	7/6/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) reports on the effects of the East Cost heat wave: Due to the heat, high electric use, and the loss of some generators some east coast power companies are into their reserve limits, which means a loss of a generation plant will cause an indefinite blackhout. Several utilities have started some rolling black outs in their service regions, voluntary and mandatory load dumping and voltage reductions. Each 'planned' rolling black out is expected to last less than 20 minutes, but the electric companies are warning customers service may be interrupted up to four hours. The heat is supposed to break this afternoon/evening. However the front will bring a line of strong thunderstorms through the east coast, which creates its own problems. All of our east coast POPs have stayed up, so far. But several of our customers have experienced power outages at their sites and some libraries have closed for the day.