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To: jack bittner who wrote (6832)	4/16/2000 9:31:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

"i'd guess there were hundreds of thousands of buggy whips out there when the horseless carriage came in." jack- I'm not sure what you are asking...Are you saying HFC, xDSL, xMDS are, "buggy whip," access technologies? AT&T doesn't have 900,000,000 local copper loops. They have an insignificant amount. AT&T is a Long Distance(LD) company. That's what they spent $102 billion for purchasing coaxial cable plants. They want to use coax for their local access loop. Not copper. The Telecom Act prevents them from purchasing/building local copper loops. Also the 900,000,000 local copper loops is a Worldwide figure. Of those, there are 200,000,000 local copper loops in North America. Worldcom doesn't have local fiber loops of any significance that I'm aware of. I believe WCOM is going after the local loop via Wireless xMDS technology. No RBOC has any significant local fiber loops that I'm aware of either. There are data CLECs that do, but I don't believe it's a significant figure yet either. As far as T stopping WCOM, I'm not sure what you are asking? As of today, both are LD players. -MikeM(From Florida)