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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (35234)	12/20/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

They are purposely trying to hold back ADSL so they can continue to milk the T1 lines. I don't follow this logic. ADSL is a residential service. T1 is a business service.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (35234)	12/21/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere	Respond to of 36349

PAIR's marketing position is the most frustrating that I have ever been in thanks to the bunker mentality of the RBOCs (or ILECs). It seems like they are going to fight up to their retirement any change to their existing tariff offerings. AT&T says OK, we will bypass the copper (i.e. RBOCs) with cable and wireless. Unfortunately, PAIR is tied to the copper for now and must rely on the CLECs to buy AVIDIA. It would seem like the best bet would be MCI to adopt AVIDIA to implement HDSL2 to displace all the RBOC T1s that connect the customer premises to the MCI backbone. This is a huge chunk of the RBOCs revenue and it can cause a lot of executive retirements. This part can happen, makes a lot of sense, but the decision is likely tied up in the proposed MCI Sprint merger. Dam it's frustrating!!