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To: axial who wrote (11413)	6/14/2001 12:29:04 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 12823

Hi Jim, >>National link to Web would cost $4-billion<< reminds me of the 1997 Japanese proposals to bring fiber to every household for $500B, but $900B if the fiber was buried. They were looking at a fleet of blimps to bring broadband to the more remote households to save on the cost of fiber. >>But the task force will argue that if Ottawa wants the industry to take on the huge broadband project, the government must at the same time give the industry the freedom to access foreign capital.<< telecom can no longer be financed by the government, hence the disintermediation. petere