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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (12598)	7/8/2002 10:52:55 AM
From: LKO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57684

Goes to show how balance sheets are so important. Sure. No disagreements. But I was implying something else. But I think the incumbent ILECs are the mafia that were relied on to play nice while competing CLECs play catchup. Talk about fox guarding the henhouse. The ILEC-competitors (CLECs or not) did not stand a chance. Now that is being put out as something that does not work and hence an implication that rules should be changed so that the field is clear and without competition to ILEC and baby bells. Strict and Coercive regulation of existing monopolies (not "boys, please play nice") is as important to introducing meaningful viable competition as balance sheets or anything else that enforces transparency.