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To: Skiawal who wrote (8056)	11/28/1997 8:06:00 AM
From: w2j2	Respond to of 21342

This is hogwash: <Competitive Resale of Service: Physical unbundling, as required by the FCC Local Competition Order and the 1996 Telecommunications Act, could lead to inefficient use of existing communications facilities. The requirement that the underlying network components be made available to competitors in order to permit them to offer service based on these elements in any manner they desire could permit competitors to offer the data channel separate and apart from the voice channel. This would require additional facilities to offer traditional voice service, ultimately causing an increase in overall costs to end-user customers regardless of whether they are served by Bell Atlantic or a competitive local exchange carrier > What they really should say is that the issue is $$$ and they will use lawyers to thwart the FCC & prevent competition, and since there is currently no competition, they will introduce ADSL as slow as possible. IMHO wj