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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (10117)	1/9/2001 9:45:27 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

I don't think so. There is a cost associated with this twisted pair. Very little hardware related but most of it in administering it. I don't have the Siemens study about the EWSD switch here but they claimed that saying: Why should you build an IP network to supply telephony CISCO-like when the costs associated to deliver telephone is related to administering the subs rather than the platform? Now if mobile is already there, why should you keep two networks to supply pure telephony once you know that the network with the best price/performance can carry those calls more economically?

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (10117)	1/10/2001 12:34:58 AM
From: wonk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

The ILECS have always lost money on consumer dial tone - the difference made up in business dial tone, LL (as elmatador pointed out) data and most important, access charges. They have been tremendously helped by the internet and the explosion of HH 2nd lines. The 96 Act was attempting to foster competition by letting the CLECs and the IXcs attack the biz market, letting the RBOCs into LD only as competition developed and the elimination of access charges in relative sync with developing competition. Basically, everyone attack each others profit centers. There was method to the madness. However, the RBOCS have played the defensive game very well, the market is knocking the stuffing out of the CLECS, and their wireless subs and the internet has picked up the slack from market share losses in biz. But they still lose money in res dial tone. ww