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To: fred g who wrote (15640)	6/25/2006 1:31:19 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

A familiar, but nonetheless always interesting, framing of the issue. To put it lightly, Internet-based communications has had a liberating effect on consumers, allowing them for the first time to select on their own the modalities and types of voice and data services they want to a much greater extent than was ever possible before. This has been especially true during the recent past, primarily enabled by the introduction of residential high-speed Internet access, a.k.a. broadband. Are you effectively stating that the choices and preferences that consumers have gravitated to during the relatively recent past will again be reversed, where the ILEC once again dictates to users what they want? *Forsooth!* And while we're on the subject, does the term "ILEC" still hold true for a Bell company once it has relinquished its common carrier responsibilities and assumed the role of an ISP?