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To: Brasco One who wrote (5358)	9/24/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Donny, older [read: lossy and noisy] copper pairs are usually also longer cable pairs. Some of them will be replaced if they meet even marginal distance limit requirements, and some (maybe more of this class) will be reduced in length when upgrades consisting of deeper fiber into the neighborhoods takes place. The ones which are too lossy due to load pots, or loading coils, will have those coils removed. A smaller number of situations might never be upgraded, relegating those areas to wireless wins and cable wins. Although, and while this last statement seemed very likely as recently as maybe a year ago, today I think it would unconscionable for an ILEC to avoid the issue entirely, except for the most remote regions of coverage. And here, I think that even the ILECs may begin offering wireless local loop extensions to normal services in order to support Internet and other forms of data services where it makes sense. Older CableTV coaxial cable facilities also face the same circumstances and possible fates. Regards, Frank Coluccio