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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (347)	11/14/1999 7:38:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1782

"Now, there's an interesting contrast, wouldn't you say? When it comes to opening up the MSO's and ATHM's pipes they figuratively stick their heads in the sand. When it comes to the ILECs, they instead fetch for the cutlery." Frank, Surprisingly, as an opponent of, "Forced Cable Access," I agree with your comment above. If the FCC wants to maintain a, "hands off," policy towards the cablecos, then the same argument can be made for them to keep their hands off the telcos. If GTE tries to fight this potential FCC forced DSL access line sharing, then GTE is talking out both sides of their mouth. GTE is sowing what they reap. Which IMHO, pushing forced access, was a pretty stupid move on their part. Instead of fighting AT&T, they should have been supporting them and pushing to have their twisted copper pairs made their own property. With so many proven competing technologies for last mile access, it's time for the government to leave all the competitors alone. As the telcos have stated before, they would be glad to spend money on upgrading their twisted copper pairs if they were not forced to share it. MikeM(From Florida)