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Microcap & Penny Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FTEL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Darrel Orpen who wrote (26411)	1/30/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: topwright	Respond to of 41046

Darrel, some of the aspects, ie. 1. peering arrangements to garner access to the backbone 2. lay-off charges for origination and termination fees 3. transactional fees for the billing of traffic over their infrastructure. are just the tip of the iceberg. What I am finding out, via in the trenches research, is that this Internet Telephony is an intricate web of reciprosity (sp?) agreements and hidden roadblocks, every step of the way. For example, hunting charges. Any one ever hear of that one? Maybe Thomas or Valuespec, or even Jean wants to explain? What makes this a three layered mental chess game is that we are not only talking about various CLECs, LD carriers, and RBOCS (to name a few), we are also talking about international tariffs also. Add to this the nuances of dealing with different billing structures, and you find yourself in a quaqmire of never ending paperwork and negotiations. In the world as we know it, the big boys first aks the question "what can you do for me?" before allowing access to circumvent a lot this quaqmire as stated above. The questions to ask yourself when analyzing all this is what benefits would a WCOM derive from having FNET colocate on their backbone? Is it strictly the leasing of space and revenues received, or is it something more? The answers to that question can only be answered by the parties involved, but it doesn't take much imagination to see the common ground and mutually beneficial rewards through services that go much further then just LD phone revenues. On the other side of the coin ask yourself what benefits FNET/FTEL could derive by having a head start on deployment into the key US/Global cities? (refer back to the origination/termination charges) and then ask yourself one more question. What extra benefits would a customer recieve by buying their equipment through Franklin? Lights on? rb