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To: halfscot who wrote (2290)	3/22/1998 5:35:00 AM
From: Loft Guy	Respond to of 11568

WCOM does not need a latin america partner since MCI is a pretty good latin america partner. Telfonica espana or whatever that first went with BT and now WCOM/MCI is not a fickle company. They are just following MCI's presence is south america with their own spanish speaking user base. The missing links are video and home satelite. Which this WCOM observer and MCI ESPP shareholder expect will be added after the MCI purchase. One of the brilliance aspects of WCOM is the decision to lay overseas and pan european fiber in order to avoid alliances with high cost local providers. If telefonica de espana is willing to join with WCOM on terms acceptance to WCOM then that lets WCOM go after the other major countries. Duestche Telecom and France Telecom are both bloated recently gov't owned unionized companies which any well capitalized competitor would love to engage in a competitive battle. WCOM is correct to make alliances with the smaller countries and compete against the big three (BT, DT and FT). I hold MCI via the ESPP and I regret I overlooked WCOM until they made their takeover bid.