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To: elmatador who wrote (2994)	5/1/2000 12:48:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3299

Re: AFCI and lots of others smallish vendors can't do that. Slowly you'll understand, lml. elmatador: Excuse me, but what is "that" you are referring to? Did you read my post to Eric, or you just felt a need to post this article & for some reason lecture me with the advice of "Slowly you'll understand, lml." Understand what? What I read into your post goes beyond your asserted language handicap, & straight to your bruised ego. My advice is to get over it. If you have substantive input to post here please explain your hypothesis so that others here know what you're talking about because on its face, the article you post appear quite irrelevant to AFCI, & underscores your lack of understanding of the company. FWIW, I am well aware of the more recent price-cutting methods employed by the likes of ALA to secure large Ks with dominant telecom carriers such as SBC & usurp long-held business away from NT. What this article is illustrative of, if anything, is how the larger telecoms must compete in order to grow their business, particularly companies like ALA & LU whose more agile competitors appear to be dancing circles around them. CSCO is a different story, & if you don't know that, then you are really confused. In closing, what I can gather, elmatador, is that you are obviously European, and hold dear your belief in a Euro-centric hierarchy of global telecommunication companies, & your disdain for the smaller US-based entrepreneurial ventures that have been quite successful in the past decade in changing the face of telecom infrastructure across the globe. In response, these companies that you hold dear, such as ALA, have chosen to respond with US-based acquisitions and increased price competition. Based upon your series of posts here & elsewhere, I can only speculate that your European ego is at play. While I can "appreciate" your patriotism along this front, it is by no means substantive to the issues in telecom today. The bottom line is that boundaries that have defined telecom infrastructure in the past are falling as global networks are becoming increasingly commonplace and carriers purchase their equipment regardless of the country origin of their supplier. They will look to technology and price, and the likes of ALA and LU will have to respond along these same lines if they are to grow their businesses.