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To: Trey McAtee who wrote (10139)	4/10/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Trey, <<however, i would guess it is BEL since they got the go ahead this week to offer LD service.>> I have seen your comments about Bell Atlantic getting Go ahead before and I believe you are getting ahead of yourself. The way I read the news: 1. They have gotten a positive signal from NY State polinitians in offering Long Distance voice services conditioned on Bell Atlantic fulfilling cirtain conditions - openning up local market(which they are not going to do)to competition and the agreement from FCC 2. The news above pertains only to voice calls, not the data. Bell Atlantic is not expected to offer Long distance voice until early 1999. 3. Assuming that FCC and NY State allows BEL the long distance voice and even the data service in NY State I will not be surprised if AT&T, MCI and SPRINT will try to block it by filing low suits. I assumed you were absolutly correct when you wrote to me that RBOCs are more interested in keeping their local monopoly type businesses, rather then entring the low profit margin highly competitve long distance. This explains better why RBOCs are so slow in deploying ADSL.