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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1141)	10/24/2000 6:20:52 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Well, so much for the gentleman's agreement between telcos and powercos that has existed for over a century to maintain an arm's length relationship and not fool with the other's turf. I guess we could now look to Verizon to begin installing power generation plants.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1141)	10/24/2000 6:33:49 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Respond to of 46821

Sir.. I'll have you know that my competitor glut is larger than yours. _g_ Well, yeah, and you guys have both teams in the World Series, too. Damn you Yankees, but down in bubbaland, in addition to dumb and dumber, wait, there's more (from the URL referenced in your last post): Fiberworks announced today that it has received unanimous approval by the Georgia Public Service Commission for its Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and Other Common Carrier (OCC) licenses. [snip] Fiberworks recently announced plans to build fiber-optic facilities throughout Atlanta and fourteen other Southeastern U.S. cities. Among the cities on the company's roster are Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina; Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Houston, Texas; Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and St. Petersburg, Florida; Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. ---------------------------------------------- And there are more, including, in Round Rock (home of DELL), TXU (electric utility) which is doing the same gig as Con Ed up your way. I'm in the real estate biz here in Austin, and in my new business park have provided big ol' "fat pipes" (empty conduits) through each building and from building to building, and a Texas-sized pipe out to the street. Not charging for access (we'll accept $$ when offerred, however)nor are we trying to do deals where our tenants are beholden to a landlord-selected carrier. So, the customers of dumb, dumber, dense, denser and even dunce and duncest are welcome here as our tenants. Plus we have DSL from Southwestern Bell, regular T-1 lines, and one guy still has ISDN. No Time-Warner cable, yet. But, I just don't know what I'm going to do with all the fiber and splitter-widgets left in my plant after a bunch of these guys hit the skids. Start my own cut-rate CLEC? My local paving contractor is pretty happy about the action in downtown Austin. In addition to the CLEC's, the long-haul guys have been mighty busy also. According to the City of Austin, there are currently 13 different SP's of various flavors with street-cutting permits.