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To: Tony Viola who wrote (160807)	3/1/2002 12:11:49 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

msnbc.com It's hard to tell from this report whether this is pro or anti consumer. The Baby Bells have been successful in nuetralizing the effect of the Tele Dereg Act, which in some ways contributed to the dotcom fall out. One of the provisions of the bill Doubles the fines, but the Baby Bells have be very successful in delaying the payment of a say $7MM fine at the end of say three years, while making 8MM a day violating the original deregulation bill.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (160807)	3/1/2002 4:15:17 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 186894

Tony: As I understand this bill it takes the regulation off what telcos can charge so their will be room for RBOC's to make $ while making facilities availability to CLECs. The RBOC's have been the dogs in the manger in this whole broadband constipation problem. The cable system operators have not been far behind in terms of glacial movement in the area of broadband internet and more so in terms of offering phone service. I think that the RBOC's and the cable cos. got together and agreed not too invade each others turf. If I were the antitrust boys I would spend my time looking into the real monopolies and not the imagined ones. JFD