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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (7380)	6/15/2004 8:59:29 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Peter, Wasn't it Sprint, some years ago, that attempted to do a "360" kind of rollup of MSOs in an alliance to spread cellular services? This was, maybe, ten or more years ago, and included TCG in some form? FAC late edit: Here it is: "In 1995, Sprint and its cable television joint venture partners also won rights to Personal Communications Service (PCS) wireless licenses in 29 U.S. major trading areas, and, in 1996, deployed the nation's first successful PCS system in the Washington DC-Baltimore area, under the "Sprint Spectrum" name. Also in 1996, Sprint's global alliance with Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom began business as Global One. Shortly after that, Sprint Cellular became 360¡ Communications in a tax-free spin-off that freed Sprint Corp. from violating FCC regulations or endangering its stock values in its pursuit of PCS opportunities." From a 1997 historical perspective on Sprint's Strategic makeup, and the initiative I spoke above was geared to PCS: mark.umd.edu

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (7380)	6/18/2004 11:37:09 PM
From: DreamWeaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Comcast buying Sprint makes more sense to me than them going after a big entertainment company like they did earlier this year. Was it Disney? That was silly. Anyway, why not? The IEC's are struggling, (particularly on the voice side of things). Cable has the local access. IEC's have the data backbone. Seems like a good marriage in order to deliever end to end VoIP... What do you think? Toss in WiFi and a nationwide cellular provider (Nextel?)... then RBOC's will feel some heat :-)