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To: Teddy who wrote (3254)	11/16/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Teddy, now I see what you're saying. My initial impression was that we were discussing risers in the domestic US buildings. Sidebar: At one time the ILECs here in the stated (prior to the mid Eighties) had a dominant presence in the risers, too, prior to divestiture, when they owned most of the shaft cabling from the basement to the roof. That was before tenants even had any LANs to speak of, the Internet was still the Internet, and VPN stood for Vice President Nixon... well, not that far back. This was prior to the advent of fiber as we now know it today, being a tenant location medium. In any event, carriers still own certain fiber counts today in the domestic riser systems, i.e., here in the states, but primarily to facilitate TDM forms of SONET/SDH delivery, and not for ad hoc creation of private enterprise networking needs over dark fiber, or even over IEEE LANs. This is the great opportunity that is being filled by outfits who are contracted by MFNX, Telergy, and even GBLX, to name just three. There are hundreds of the contracting firms involved in this space now.. probably thousands of them across the country. Some are even public, like FTGX (Fibernet), which is another NY firm whose principal role is (or soon will be, if I'm not mistaken) lighting up buildings with fiber risers and horizontal distribution systems (both fiber and twisted pair). In addition to the pulling of media, they will also be creating SONET Rings and erecting neutral carrier easements in the hubs of large urban campuses. End Sidebar. If the HK company still maintains a dominant presence in those risers in HK, which sounds like is the case, then this is very likely the explanation for their "owning", and through extension, GBLX having now gained proprietary access to the fiber in those buildings, as you have reported. As you can see, I didn't get to hear the conference call last night. Regards, Frank

To: Teddy who wrote (3254)	11/16/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Marty R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

OT-OT Regarding your question about voice recognition program. First, those that are currently on the market would not work to transcribe the CC or anything like that. They all are basically "trained" to recognize a particular voice pattern. Some like Dragon allow for multiple users. But only work for one user at a time. And even at that a 90% or so accuracy is probably peak performance. It's been my experience that the accuracy is less then that and they only work well when using sound card(s) & headset(s) that are recommended by the manufacturer. The latest PC Magazine has a nice write up comparing the leading titles. Their pick is Dragon Naturally Speaking with IBM's Via Voice getting honorable mention. The technology's pretty cool, but I still think they're somewhat expensive novelty software. As for GBLX I certainly appreciate all the information provided by the many knowledgeble participants on this thread. Although there's much I don't fully understand I continue to learn more about the various facets of the GBLX business plan. The more I learn the more I'm glad to be a shareholder. marty