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To: FR1 who wrote (27512)	4/3/2001 7:49:03 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

The local Bells must do a number give up. That's part of a recent FCC decision. It may be the case that that only pertains to a user requesting long distance service from Att. However, Att bundles the long distance with local access over the Bell's copper network. The FCC stipulated that the Bell's must give up the number in that case. So if a customer wanted to switch to Att for reasons unconnected to long distance, a Bell couldn't know what the intent was and would have to do a give up. This would only occur if the above mentioned reasons unconnected were sufficiently sweet to get people to jump. That's what my criticism of Att was. They haven't made it attractive enough to get a good market share jump. The way to do it is through price parity using the low cost of the cable. Then the other features of the bundle make the deal sweet enough.