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Technology Stocks : Winstar Comm. (WCII) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Scott who wrote (10301)	2/14/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: DubM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

This is from almost a month ago. Not sure, but don't think it was posted. It sounds as though the REIT itself is offering the communications services to tenants? January 19, 1999 Dow Jones Newswires Equity Office Ppties Gets IRS OK To Provide Telecom Svc Dow Jones Newswires CHICAGO -- Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) received Internal Revenue Service approval to provide telecommunications services to its customers without violating rules for real estate investment trusts. In a press release Tuesday, the company said revenue generated from telecommunications services will be deemed rents from real property under the IRS ruling. Equity Office also may participate business relationships with telecommunications service providers for various services. The REIT will offer services from Winstar Communications Inc. (WCII) and Allied Riser Communications Inc. at many of its buildings. Equity Office Properties Trust operates 286 buildings in 24 states and the District of Columbia.