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To: MangoBoy who wrote (1641)	6/29/1998 12:58:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

Mark, Re: "Telecom Reform Act criteria for competitive local markets..." Let's not forget that the 3-year moratorium on the ILECs to get into LD, even in the absence of compliance to the competitive mandates, is almost up. This coming February or March, isn't it? I'd say that they've done an excellent job frustrating the enemy up until now, no? Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but aren't they free to enter into LD on their unfettered own, in the next seven or eight months, or so? Now would be the time, if that is the case, for them to be lining up acquisitions. Again, please correct me if I am mistaken. Tnx. Regards, Frank C.

To: MangoBoy who wrote (1641)	6/29/1998 7:55:00 AM
From: Roger Hess	Respond to of 6846

A question or two: IF Qwest were to be taken over by a larger corporation, how would this affect their relationship with GTE, WorldCom, and Frontier, considering they have run lines for them and are maintaining the lines? In other words, if a phone company bought out Qwest, they might be in the position of providing lines for competitors, which I would think would be a conflict of interest, which they wouldn't want to do. Or could it be that GTE or WorldCom would consider taking over Qwest? Is it possible that Qwest or someone else could become or is becoming a sort of 'Cisco' of the telecommunications business? Let's hope the top dogs don't allow themselves to be taken over, but are the ones doing the taking over!

To: MangoBoy who wrote (1641)	6/29/1998 8:34:00 AM
From: Wayne Olive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

>>WCOM and Crowe (MFS CEO) aren't on very good terms. A merger would be uunlikely. Ditto an RBOC buying QWST. RBOCs can't get into long-distance until they meet the Telecom Reform Act criteria for competitive local markets.<< That's why a Time Warner & Qwest combo would fit, a la AT&T & TCI.... and another strong possibility is an overseas telco paying big to enter the US market, like Brit Telcom, etc... It would all be up to Phil A.. the majority stockholder of Qwest. Wayne

To: MangoBoy who wrote (1641)	6/30/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

Mark, this is what I must have been thinking of from Section 271 of the Act: "'(1) Joint marketing of local and long distance services: Until a Bell operating company is authorized pursuant to subsection (d) to provide interLATA services in an in-region State, or until 36 months have passed since the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, whichever is earlier, a telecommunications carrier that serves greater than 5 percent of the Nation's presubscribed access lines may not jointly market in such State telephone exchange service obtained from such company pursuant to section 251(c)(4) with interLATA services offered by that telecommunications carrier." Not sure how much of this is still relevant, or how much has since been subordinated or stricken by by case law or subsequent FCC orders, but that's what I was referring to in my earlier post. Any Lawyers on the Thread who can add to this? Frank C.