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To: MGV who wrote (6022)	3/20/2000 9:23:00 PM
From: MGV	Respond to of 11568

MCI WorldCom and Sprint Set Record Straight biz.yahoo.com

To: MGV who wrote (6022)	3/20/2000 11:05:00 PM
From: Jim Ray	Respond to of 11568

MGV, Up until the last couple of weeks I felt that the FON deal would close. But the head of the FCC has shown that he might have a personal vendetta against WCOM. He voiced outrage with the way WCOM treated Cable and Wireless on the spin-off of MCI's backbone to them. (personaly I think WCOM put a smooth move on Cable and Wireless) The spin-off was the deal maker in the MCI merger for the FCC. He is embarrassed and I think he will do any thing in his power to stop the FON deal. Then you have the RBOC's screaming like stuck pigs over competition in the long distance markets. And the FCC is bending over backwards to get them to follow the FCC guidelines and get into long distance. The longer the RBOC'S drag their feet on opening their markets, the bigger the joke the last Telecommunications Act becomes. (really making the FCC look bad. As far as the European Union: If they OK the Vodafone / Mannesmann deal, and then WCOM (who has no wireless) acquires VOD and dumps all of the Mannesmann's land lines, the European Union is looking at the same wireless company that they ok'd for VOD. But I am like you on the FON deal, I just want it ok'd on both sides of the Atlantic and closed. Jim Ray