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To: BHunt who wrote (12353)	5/13/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: FJ	Respond to of 15313

Talk about the company we keep: Joe Theismann article and picture are on FNTN website. fntn.com Regards, FJ

To: BHunt who wrote (12353)	5/13/1999 5:00:00 AM
From: Tomato Man	Respond to of 15313

Brian, from my diggings I have found the following. Frontier is owned by Global Crossing. Frontier also OWNS one third of Qwest. Qwest is in the middle of putting together a giant fiber optic loop in the USA. The loop starts in Frisco and then goes to KC and then NYC. From there they plan to go to DC and then Atlanta, Dallas and back to Frisco. The beauty of this is two fold. The Exec of Qwest is an old railroad man and is using his connections to get railroad rights to run cable along the tracks. It is a very clever way of getting all the rights you need and only having to negotiate with a couple of companies who already have all the access you need.Very smart. Also, this loop will give them the structure to "cure" any cables problems by simply rerouting the calls through the loop. From the press release I read they are now capable of transmitting at 2.5 gigs a second and by the end of June they should be up to 5 gigs a second. Now tell me that ain't enough speed and bandwidth to send some awesome video's to grandma's house! There is more here. Let's keep digging. Tomato Man

To: BHunt who wrote (12353)	5/13/1999 5:10:00 AM
From: Tomato Man	Respond to of 15313

Brian, I like this part VERY much: "With this announcement and our planned merger with Frontier Corporation in the U.S., we are moving to the highest capacity global fiber optic network in the world," said Robert Annunziata, chief executive officer of Global Crossing. "Analysts forecast bandwidth demand on the Atlantic route to grow at about 80 percent per year, driven primarily by the explosion of the Internet use in Europe. The addition of Frontier's fiber-optic network in the United States and now the double-redundancy of our trans-Atlantic cables ensure that national telephone providers, data-centric multinational corporations, and Internet providers in the Americas and Asia have guaranteed connectivity with the major cities of Europe. By using the latest technology, we will be sure that no competitor will have a cost advantage over us." COOL! TMan