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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9888)	12/21/2000 11:30:49 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

MikeM, It's the old right of way issue, again. I hear what you're saying concerning ownership. But when it comes down to ROWs and the placement of field electronics, and allowing them to continue at their snail's pace, it's like rewarding them for having done nothing for so long. These outfits aren't riding the wave of new technologies, necessarily. Rather, in most cases they are pulling older technologies into the future by a bumper chain. Technologies that were designed before anyone even took the Internet seriously. The question boils down to this: Should the ILECs be rewarded with additional protections? What UNE attempts to do is leave the ROWs to the incumbents, and in return the incumbents must make their facility elements available to competitors for a fee. I don't see anything overly egregious with this arrangement, although it does stick in my craw on some level, I have to admit. Maybe it sticks in my craw because of the limitations that characterize the kinds of elements that competitors are forced to use. Yes, that sounds about right. FAC