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To: carranza2 who wrote (14944)	9/6/2001 12:51:27 PM
From: tcd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

I can answer that. I can answer that. For the same reason that RBOC have frozen out newer players. When Sprint first introduced fiber optics in 1981, the quality of LD increased more than 50%. At the time MCI and others quality was poor but within months, they all were converting to f/o. The Europeans are more tight-fisted with their money than Q and other American companies and it so happens that they like the QOS they are putting out right now. Of course they're going to turn away Q; however, when the new services start rolling out here in the States, Europe will follow. That's at least a small reason why VOD is pushing smaller increments... let the Americans do it.