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To: Martin P. Smith who wrote (24319)	1/7/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Billwar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41046

Martin, In telecommunications jargon, "collocation" simply provides the right to locate your facilities in the same location (building) as the one granting the right. The Bell operating companies do not like to give collocation because it makes it too easy for competitors to interconnect and because they want to reserve the space for their own equipment. Collocation significantly reduces the cost of interconnection to FTEL because their facilities will reside and tie directly into WCOM's at each POP location. Without this agreement, it would take FTEL years to negotiate interconnection agreements with ISP POPs around the U.S., let alone the world. This is a gold mine indeed.

To: Martin P. Smith who wrote (24319)	1/7/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Respond to of 41046

Actually, this is the first time I've ever seen "collocate" in print, and assumed it was a typo. Now that I think about it, though, I don't think I've ever seen "co-locate" in print, though I've always assumed it was spelled that way. Whatever the correct spelling, it appears to be the term I'm familiar with. (I just checked the dictionary -- the way it's spelled in the press release is the correct spelling) That term means that you pay to locate your equipment at the provider's site and attach your equipment to theirs. It's most commonly seen when a company needs to make a fairly stout device available on the net and it's more cost-effective to put their own device at the provider's site rather than rent resources at the provider (hard drive space, etc) and/or run high-bandwidth lines to their own site. In this case, it's a cost-effective way for Franklin to put the Tempest at strategic locations around the country. Whether or not they've got WCOM's interest, it is at least apparent that we're about to get knee-deep into the rollout phase. For this to work, collocation has to be done. I'm glad it's WCOM.