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To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31075)	3/25/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Lew: Good stuff when you see NSPK advertising all over the US, and even in small towns of 60k or so. Lets hope companies like NSPK and FNet will keep the "enhanced service provider" / ISP symbol PLUS pickup on the LAD circuits which companies like US West are trying to keep from them. LAD circuits allow companies to access cable, and the US Wests of the US are trying to keep this from us. Its interesting that ISP's who are titled as "enhanced service providers" have acces to basic service from the telephone companies. CLEC's competitive local are looking into cable as a great revenue stream, it also seems that ISP's will soon be able to use LAD for xDSL. Companies like US West who complained in March about ISP's bogging down their voice telephon switches, were also coverng up the LAD switch for ISP's to use cable. ISP's would call about LAD switches for cable and be denied and told they don't exist and couldn't have it. Even if it was available and tarriffed. Then US West filed in fourtenn states to remove the LAD circuit tariff. What this did was move copper availability from the basic services category to the unbundled / which meant copper available to telco's and not ISP's. It seems to be one of the more vicious acts in recent months. US West then announced Internet acess products using xDSL in 40 cities at various bandwidths and as a 40 dollar a month charge. MSFT, INTEL, and Compaq joined in to push xDSL an an access technology. Between the three of them, the do seem to have volume with the modems only costing about as much as a regular one. Its interesting that the RBOC's have a huge advantage currently over loal Internet service providers in providing xDSL. They have access to the copper, and they are very busy making sure ISP's dont have the access for copper. The creeps see this as a way to basically steal the dial-up access market now that smaller companies have demonstrated the market exists. Here's the clincher, communication companies like FNet will need to choose (at sometime) between being a competitive local exchange CLEC) or an enhanced service provider. It may not be necessary with WCOM as a backbone, I don't know. But the fact remains that ISP's do not have access to the same collocation and unbundled copper provisions as CLEC's. The FCC has just opened an inquiry titled: Computer III Further Remand Proceedings which can be read @ fcc.gov In any event, the fcc for the first time in over 12 years is asking whether internet service providers should have access to the "upstream" side of your phone line in order to offer high speed internet access. So, since ISP's only get "basic" service, ya can't to its central office and demand access to the twisted copper pair of wires that run to your house. Some interesting stuff going on that will effect us all one day. It will be interesting to see the results of 4000 ISP's trying to differentiate themselves from their telephone competitors. Basic Temp'