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To: Souze who wrote (5679)	3/23/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Nick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

GMGC is the only stock in my portfolio that's up today, how's that for irony... Nick

To: Souze who wrote (5679)	3/23/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Kurthend	Respond to of 10081

Souze, I read this in the Forbes ASAP April 5, 1999 edition (page 84) tonight. It is a half page article of an interview with Joe Nacchio (CEO of QWST). Below is the whole article which consists of 4 questions and answers. ASAP: Qwest's partnerships look more like a Silicon Valley firm's than a telecom's. NACCHIO - My assessment for the way the telecom world was going to look more like a computer industry model. A very important ingredient to that is understanding where your competencies are and are not, and getting synergy by having really good partnerships. If you look at the computer industry, you find that each layer in the value chain is discretely identified and is competed with at that layer. Telecom, because of its monopoly history, has been vertically integrated. As a result, you have much higher costs and much slower development cycles. I want to be able to buy the equipment, the operating system, and the APIs (application programming interfaces) from everyone and open them up to entrepreneurs. "ASAP question - Why did you choose partners such as Netscape, Cisco, and Microsoft? NACCHIO - We believe portals and browsers are an important new access vehicle to distribute networks, and therefore we therefore we looked to Netscape. We are building communication functionality behind the Netcenter page. So if you are creating a document and you want to click to call, fax, conference call, or send it to messaging, we'll be able to handle that on all platforms. The Cisco partnership was about helping us develop a distributed IP-based network. The Microsoft deal was the creation of a new private virtual IP data network using an operating system, complex Web hosting in managed software services, and then a joint marketing agreement to use their 88,000 distribution points to sell our products." This sure sounds as thought GMGC is in the middle of this one, especially when you consider the Wirelessknowledge deal. "ASAP question - What will Qwest offer next? NACCHIO - We think the 21st century will be about image cimmunication, not voice and data. A video server-based network on broadband IP protocol is where we think communications needs to go. What we're working on for the corporate market is an IP server-based network. People want to communicate while they are actually working on a PC screen. A different kind of platform needs to be built behind the browser so that you can move seamlessly between an ISP kind if service and a communication kind of service." "ASAP question - What are you doing to keep Qwest dynamic in the long term? NACCHIO - I am going to guard against the company believing too much of its own public relations. I want to borrow a phrase from Andy Grove's book: Only the paranoid can survive." But I also want to say only the pragmatic survive. We're going to stay on the cutting edge of technology. We're going to look for partners. take care, Kurt PS Thanks for today's news release.