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To: wonk who wrote (4781)	7/21/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

I can envisage the electrical shops now. Picture them mobilizing to create quasi-carrier-like rooftop and window-shot services throughout metropolitan areas, and other centers of communications like airports, college campuses, malls, and so on. Think of the 'collaboritive' discussions with the delegates from the window washers' and roofers' unions. Then picture them well on their way to lens-clearing successes, when all of a sudden the incumbents begin clamoring and applying pressure through legal actions for state and federal licensing, and demand even bolder demands of these johnny come latelies. They will be called upon to meet minimum carrier threshold qualifications, necessities and convenience, file for tariffs, partake in universal service funding, pushing to prevent them from connecting to the PSTN due to potential adverse effects to network health reasons, and so on. Hm.. Soon, the mounting overheads from filings, union dues, annual carrier licenses, USF, etc., begins to cut deep into the margins of these palookas, to the point where they are doing black market shots in some ingeniously camouflaged ways for nethead orgainzations who don't believe in "the system" in the first place. How much did you say that T1 from WCII costs?