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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2126)	9/25/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Sort of OT but related to: Picking up copper, switches and poles of USW would have egregiously contaminated this elevated state of being Recently, i found an interesting site devoted to one of US Worst “assets.” cardhouse.com It is, IMHO, a very interesting story. The basic facts are stated on the front page: Recently, I spotted a small dot with the word "telephone" beside it on a map of the Mojave desert, 15 miles from the main interstate in the middle of nowhere. Intrigued, I donned a cheap, brown serape and a pair of wing-tips and headed out to find it in my old jeep. After many hours I do find it (the glass is shot out and the phone book is missing) but it works! Apparently, this booth was put in after WWII for the use of a nearby mine which ceased operations in the 60s; why the local phone company keeps it operational is anybody's guess. A nearby rancher told me that in the 70s they replaced the old rotary style phone with push buttons because the sheep were having trouble dialing. Oh, if you're interested, the number is (619) 733-9969. Let it ring a long time if you want a response. NOTE (4/98): The area code has since been changed to 760. Here is a partial transcript (from the web site) of a call to the phone relating to the QoS that US Worst has been providing. Seems to confirm Ray D's experience: Well, they've had the mine since 1948. And we had the phone booth down where the road splits off [unintelligible]. And my dad had to pay the phone bill on it, and people kept stealing money out of it, so he had to-- [Unintelligible because the strange clicking noise that's been going during the whole call suddenly got louder. I hate the FBI. (JUST KIDDING!)] Are you hearing that weird noise? Yeah. Does it always do that? Yeah, on and off, yeah. I hope that's not a Geiger counter. No. That would be bad! No, it's just something in this phone line. It's a long, long, long telephone line. I have been calling the number 1-760-733-9969 for two days. It is always busy. My guess is the phone is off the hook. At this time, i would like to thank Joe Nacho for getting Global Crossing out of the mistake that they made in bidding for the post child of legacy laden, bloated incumbents. (Frank, you must have an interesting story related to this, right?)

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2126)	9/25/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: M. Charles Swope	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Frank, There's another perspective one could take. USW may be saddled with a rotten infrastructure and a culture that would make a government worker proud but it also has a lot of customers. The infrastructure and culture will have to be replaced but that's going to happen one way or the other. If the price were based upon the value of the customers and then compared to what it would take to acquire those customers by competing directly with USW, it's possible an acquisition might make sense (note the word "possible"). Charlie