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To: elmatador who wrote (1703)	9/5/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: M. Charles Swope	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15615

The current issue of Business Week has an article about prices for long distance service. The gist of it, as I understand it, is that carriers will give away long distance service as part of a larger bundle of integrated telecom services. In other words, long distance service will be free. The article is online at: businessweek.com The writer concludes that AT&T will be in the strongest position to offer the kind of integrated package of services that will be necessary when long distance ceases to be the cash cow it has been in the past. My question is what does all this mean for the GBLXs of the world that, if I understand their business, essentially wholesale long distance service to large commercial users and carriers who do business with consumers (I may well be wrong about this and would welcome being enlightened if I am)? Charlie