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To: Killian who wrote (12162)	7/8/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 29970

Shekinah, I wouldn't even hazard to guess. However, let's try a little old fashioned mindblasting here: I'm still of the opinion that if T exercised some real breakaway thinking for a change (and not merely a series of ostentatious gestures designed to impress on the world the notion that they get it) they, and through some form of magical extension, even ATHM, could wind up capitalizing on opening up their systems. I believe that some mutually agreeable form of this model could take place if they presented a migration plan in a logical way, and pepared a straightforward and businesslike argument. They could easily become the outsourcing lynchpin for an entire range of service providers' needs. No one has stopped to analyze this angle of potentialities, I would suspect, and therefore no mention of it ever appears. It wouldn't be done by simply throwing a switch. Rather, T and its affiliates could lay out a strategy of resource sharing, not only sharing in the expenses of buildout, but in the contributions towards a host of next gen frameworks (protocols, service definitions, etc.) to support the kinds of enhanced services that are bound to be deployed in a piecemeal fashion, from media type to media type, and from ISP to ISP, otherwise. They actually have an opportunity to shine in this instance, instead of erecting walls and hiding behind a confused federal commission. In the absence of such a mutually agreed upon set of parameters, we will wind up with yet another whole group of islands of connectivity speaking different languages. In such a plant, they would have to present a strategy and plausible set of tactical initiatives that would, by their nature, run very deep and very wide, and would require a consensual theme as they evolved. ---- Hey, I'm only typing this off the top of my head. Imagine what T and its quasi-subsidiary could conjure up as an enticement to the 6500 ISPs if they really put their collective minds to it. Regards, Frank Coluccio