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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6841)	4/16/2000 2:34:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank- I was just speaking generally of the Telecom Act. Keeping the long distance players from doing local, and vice versa. I thought it was in the act to promote competition. But then again, maybe it was the DOJ breakup of T. Either way, it's a legal obstacle that keeps LD apart from Local. Right? One being the FCC, the other DOJ. Both pretty powerful. Also I was referring to residential fiber. Not so much business. I'm under the belief that if the residential market is only willing to pay $20-$40/month(and in some case $0) for broadband as the upper limit, then it's going to be quite a difficult decision for any SP to run fiber out to them. Is Worldcom allowed to do voice over their current local fiber loop customers? If so, how I must have missed the process they went through with the FCC to be able to do this. Can you do a quick summary. Do you have any figures for local fiber business loops deployed and provisioned? If so, I would be very interested in those stats. National, international. Anything. -MikeM(From Florida)