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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (274)	6/24/2000 3:06:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Up the Riser Operators, continued. In message 274 (up-linked) my captioned statement of "so what" was part of a lengthier diatribe which I thought that I had deleted in its entirety when the edit clock was coming down on me hard. I missed that one sentence. But the point I was making was related to the entanglements that tenants must endure nowadays, albeit in addition to many benefits that pre-wired premises allow, where yet another last 1000 feet extender of the last mile must be negotiated. The implications of this are not always obvious, nor are they always trivial. There are certainly circumstances when its highly advantageous to have a well-managed, in-building cabling infrastructure lying in wait for new connections, both from the basement or easement AND the roof for wirelesses, which speed up the time that would ordinarily be needed for new implementations. But there are also some downsides and gotchas which one must consider and be aware of when signing new rentals or leases. There are billions of dollar$ to be made by electrical firms and other up-the-riser operators [if I might borrow a term from GHowe here], which I'll call UTROs, in the cross-sections of buildings' shafts and in the hollows of their walls. But if you don't catch the gotcha clauses which are now almost standard in all commercial property leases, early on, then you may have to live with the consequences of your negligence for the entire term of the lea$e. The carrier coming into the building has concerns about the integrity of their service delivery. Furthermore, the carrier of your choice may have their own variant of UTRO, and may not be permitted to enter the building if they do not accept the terms laid out by the building manager. This was a major stumbling block when the Downtown Technology Center across the street and down the block from the NYSE at 55 Broad Street was opened several years ago. In that situation the incumbent cabletv company along with their CLEC subsidiary, as well as several other CLECs, were refused the right to run their own cables to tenant end points. To this day I think some have still been excluded. This may not appear to be a serious matter, but if you are moving into a new location where these conditions prevail you may wind up sucking wind if your dependency on your old carrier is significant. The tenant must depend on yet another outfit --sometimes two, if the campus system is divorced from the vertical riser and horizontal ones. All of which impacts the total number and context of the SLAs that the tenant must live by, and what the tenant can do on their own, especially if their lease prevents them from placing their own pipes and cables in easements and risers due to exclusives which the UTRO guy cut with the property manager or landlord. While the UTROs can make life a lot easier for all, one should be vigilant on how the landlord leverages their implementations, and how their lawyers stipulate their services in contracts. Allow yourself to be able to leverage the UTRO, but don't let yourself get caught in a "box" with no other alternatives for reaching the outside world. FAC