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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (1879)	2/27/1999 7:46:00 AM
From: Steve Morytko	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3299

Nice article about SBC. How does it help AFCI? Apparently you think there is some association? An impending SBC contract is the current myth but I can't find any supporting evidence - merely speculation and most of it building on the last guy's guess. Has anyone from AFCI or SBC indicated that SBC is giving AFCI products very serious consideration? Some have suggested (and I can't find any article mentioning it) that AFCI passed some benchmarking with SBC but that means nothing as I'm sure they would be testing competitors equipment too. Also, as I recall, posters here have speculated that SBC is the major US carrier most likely to use AFCI. But only because other carriers already have adopted fundamentally different local loop strategies that AFCI products don't compete with or use a competitors product. Wouldn't SBC seriously consider these other strategies too? Can anyone tell us whose products SBC/SNET/PacBell/Ameri-Tech uses today? Have there been trial deployments? Including AFCI? Would one recent acquisition have more clout in a deployment decision making process (probably based on real experience)? We would all be very interested in information that closely links SBC and AFCI but it's just not there as far as I can tell. Now, with international business falling off, everyone seems to be clinging to buyout/major_contract hopes. Same old story as every other crestfallen companies stock-chat board. Truth is, it's beginning to look pretty mediocre, even grim, for next quarter's EPS. I feel gravity pulling ... SteveM