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To: CChalmers who wrote (1321)	12/10/1998 9:03:00 AM
From: Bill McCullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3299

To set the record straight: Sprint is more than a long distance company. They are also a Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) through their purchase several years ago of what was then United Telephone Company a large Independent LEC that serves parts of the Southeast (NC, FL) and other territories. This is now known as Sprint LTD (Local Telecom Division). It is Sprint LTD that AFCI has a contract with. AFCI's UMC-1000 is a Digital Loop Carrier system first and foremost. Yes it can support ADSL but there are only 25,000 lines of ADSL deployed in the whole country by all carriers combined and I would venture to guess that only a tiny fraction of these are deployed from UMC-1000s so lets not draw wild conclusions that because the Long Distance arm of Sprint awards a contract for voice/data switches to Tellabs that somehow this is big news for AFCI. You are kidding yourself and doing a disservice to people on this thread who do not follow the industry that closely. Bill