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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19228)	1/24/2000 6:08:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

One Billion Dollars is only seed money compared to what it will take to fiberize every parcel of real estate in this country You bet. A Billion dollars is but a tiny drop in the bucket. This would be the first baby step of a 3000 mile journey. And they already know how much /month they would charge? LOL! I suspect if you look hard I'd guess you would find that this project will cost many 100's of billions and take 10-20 years to implement fully. You regularly remind us all of the inferiority of HFC to pure from a technical viewpoint. Of that there is no doubt, however the real issues are economic ones. Somebody has to pay interest on the billions spent. Somebody has to pay to maintain the infrastructure. Somebody has to pay to install users, etc. Everyone is heading towards pure. The only debate is which economic model will pan out to be the best- one where you create an income flow from an "inferior" product while progressing to pure gradually or one where you delay getting customers while you jump right to the end. My gut feel is that he who grabs the customers first will keep them. Eric

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19228)	1/25/2000 9:03:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

re: a correction, or should I say a statement of denial, to the upstream post (uplinked) concerning the Utility Co/HWP/ORCL fiber initiative. Thread, The story which we discussed here last night concerning the utility companies' consorting with HWP and ORCL has undergone a strange twist. A principal named party, Sierra Power, has issued an unusual public statement of denial which can be found in Raymond Duray's post (thanks again, Ray) on the LAST MILE THREAD: Message 12677789 My brief comments concerning the denial follow at: Message 12678885 Regards, Frank Coluccio