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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (75570)	2/10/2000 3:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

It's already the case that there is a commodities-style market for "dark" fiber. But laying fiber-optic cables requires a greater allocation of capital than starting a company that sells products over the Internet. I recently ordered a thermal-gel mattress pad over the Net, very similar in quality to Tempur-pedic, which costs around $800. This one was less than $200, and the nice man who took my phone order (I hate to use credit cards on-line) let on that he was the business, just him, his computer, and his very nice web-site, and that the pad would be sent from the factory. I don't know what his volume is, but his overhead can't be anything to speak of.