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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (903)	9/29/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

Sounds lie it is working Nortel Networks Offers One-Stop-Shopping for Internet Service Providers to Enter Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Business SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet Service Providers (ISPs) looking to quickly enter the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) business can now take advantage of a one-stop shopping solution offered by Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT; Toronto: NTL). Available today, Nortel Networks' ISP2CLEC Services turnkey solution helps ISPs through the entire CLEC process where speed to market is critical. The offering includes Nortel Networks' world-class digital voice switching portfolio widely used by CLECs and other public carriers, as well as its market leading 1-Meg Modem high-speed access solution plus a robust suite of professional services. Becoming a CLEC offers ISPs a number of benefits, including the ability to diversify and expand their revenue streams through voice and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services. Rather than relying on incumbent LECs for access to subscribers, many ISPs are looking to partner with a CLEC or become one themselves. "Becoming an operational facilities based CLEC is extremely difficult," said Greg Howard, director of Service Provider Programs with Infonetics Research Inc. of San Jose, Calif. "Nortel Networks' ISP2CLEC Service offers critical voice and data technical assistance to ISPs planning to become a CLEC." Nortel Networks' ISP2CLEC solution includes professional services designed to assist ISPs in a number of facets of the CLEC process, including negotiating interconnection arrangements with an incumbent LEC, and assisting in revenue planning, network design, deployment, and network operation. Nortel Networks combines these services with hardware and software components to create an individualized offering based on customer requirements. For example, one bundled ISP2CLEC solution incorporates Nortel Networks' AccessNode Express next-generation digital loop carrier, with 1-Meg Modem functionality -- designed as a versatile, low-cost solution for market entry that can operate in a multivendor switching environment. With Nortel Networks' 1-Meg Modem, ISPCLECs can offer high-speed Internet access and voice services bundled on a subscriber's existing single telephone line. 1-Meg Modem is a plug-and-play DSL service that can be installed without a service call, and offers consumers an Internet connection that's more than 17 times faster than the fastest analog modem currently available. Providing competitive local phone services was a $1 billion business in 1996, when there were 50 CLECs in North America. By 2006, an expected 500 CLECs will be competing in a $30 billion business. Revenue opportunities for CLECs include data/integrated services such as modem dialup, ISDN, frame relay and virtual private data networks; and voice services such as long distance, Centrex, business lines, CLASS services, and calling card.