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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techteam who wrote (27570)	1/27/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

The way I'm reading it the calls not only have to originate in one of those six cities but also can only go to one of those six cities. Yes, I can see them expanding the network but I would imagine the "price per POP" is dependent on how many calls they expect that point to handle at the same time. I'm also going to side with some in that a corporate's custom calling plan may be able to provide similar rates and one wouldn't be limited to a list of cities. Regardless, this whole thing is pretty much nothing more than another way to place a single voice call between Point A1 and Point A2. The last I heard the Telecom Act hasn't always been going as expected: FCC Disappointed In Appeals Court Ruling On Telecom Pricing techweb.com Bell Atlantic Seeks Relief from FCC techweb.com Oh - things like xDSL and even potentially BT would more likely involve the various State commissions. Luckily at present most count a single pair as a single pair and it matters not what's being carried over it. You know the government - they end up getting involved in the darndest things. So long as an issue is still small and nobody's raising a stink yet they'll stay out of it but let something good start to catch on ......