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To: Bob Zacks who wrote (3061)	11/2/1998 10:12:00 PM
From: Bob Zacks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Is deregulation coming soon. Should not T's plan be a necessary survival plan for the future onslaught of ROBC's entry into long distance.If T gets their way will The ROBC's shortly get into the long distance market . "The need for speed is even greater because AT&T's static growth is about to take another hit. The regional Bells could enter its core long-distance market next year " usatoday.com

To: Bob Zacks who wrote (3061)	11/3/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

At least 2 years. Maybe 10. And then there are appeals. It is extremely complicated and could only be solved quickly with Alexander's solution at Gordia. That's the last thing the FCC would do. Too many failed companies involved to hope for that. Maybe that isn't in the best interest for ATHM as we've all discussed. Political parties aren't relevant in this era. The Democrats moved to the right enough so the country didn't self destruct. Now, the political environment is like it was before LBJ. The final proof was the way Clinton and Gore out-Republicaned the Republicans during debate over NAFTA. It went a long way to show that most of those guys know what's happening. They appear in a given way to appeal to their constituencies, just as they should. They are elected to represent their people regardless of the contrary extremity of the view. Blaming politicians for this or that only proves how uneducated the blamer is. The few remnants of socialism vs capitalism reside in the unpolitical minions in the depths of government like in the FCC. They convert quickly when they see the public attitude change. With a complete majority in both houses and the presidency Republican, you still couldn't be confident of support for free market economics. Consider Orrin Hatch. Deregulation is ambiguous. Oil was deregulated. That just meant that new oil wasn't quite as heavily taxed as old and most new old wasn't considered new. The oil industry got very little incentive from the pseudo-dereg. Airline deregulation has its own set of irrational constraints. When the people decide that it is ok to have money, you might actually get free market rulings. Unfortunately, the universities still teach the glory of the war on wealth. Great success is achieved by taking an apparent disadvantage and converting it into an advantage. ATHM 's growth is confronted with forces from the 19th century war between the haves and have nots putting ATHM at an apparent disadvantage. There never was such a war though many 20th century authors railed about it. A leftover from that theoretical war is the Consumers Union. How can there be a body representing the consumer? The consumer isn't a distinguishable entity in that everyone is a consumer. That means CU represents everyone against everyone else. Pure nonsense and thus CU represents their own greedy capitalist pig interests, but they claim to be the good force seeking justice. What a collection of liars. What a collection of hypocrites. And they have their own lobbyists to slug it out in the world of unfairness. If the world is intrinsically unfair which is implied by their need of lobby, then why do they presume to operate on a different standard than the corporations which they attack under the absurdity that corporations are anti-consumer? ATT has a very powerful and competent lobbying unit, but I don't think that's the way. ATT is asking for redress directly from the FCC rather than going through Congress. That route is too slow. The company has instigated directly excess telephone charge findings by public utility commissions against profiteering competitors against the intent of the commissions. The commissions don't like their socialism used against them but they demanded the requirement in the first place. ATT is just making sure they swallow their own petard. So they are converting a disadvantage into an advantage.