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To: Srexley who wrote (374)	5/16/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 626

Hello Scott, Telestrategies puts on world class presentations, in my opinion. I've been to a number of them, mostly in Wash, DC. The first one I ever went to was in '89, or '90, I believe. Northern Telecom, at the time, was unveiling their Fiber World platform at a show similar to this one devoted to Fiber Optics and Broadband. SONET was just being unveiled too, at the time (was it a pre-ratification glimpse at the time?), replacing the top end boxes of the time which were rated at 1.8 Gb/s based on asynchronous T3/T4 aggregations. Fiber World was the flagship model that NT was promoting, the one that showed the future of cable TV networking consisting of shop-at-home conveniences, telemedicine, video conferencing, distance learning, with mock ups of shopping carts and various other cliche objects being manipulated in an animated way under the bogus control of remote control paddles. In effect, it predicted all of the things that Cable Modems are not only not being used for today, but ... ...which are actually against the current MSO's use policies to do so. So much for Fiber World and the cable TV visionaries of the Late Eighties and Early Nineties. These services were grandstanded then by the MSOs, and their vendors, like NT, as futures, favoring them over something else they hadn't even seriously considered to mention at the time, that being, the Internet. Another one that I went to was in '90 or '91, when Tony Pompliano, the then CEO of MFS was squaring off in Congress against the state PUCs and the established LECs, which were all RBOCs and large independents at the time. This show was dedicated to competition in the local loop. Two years later I saw my Bob Annunziata and MFS's Bryce Holland at a show on total competition in telecomm (which predicted the free for all we've come to know by now), where Bob A. presented his thesis: "Whither the CAPs?" The term CLEC didn't exist then, and CAP stood for competitivw access carrier. Most of these shows were filled initially by RBOC engineering types, originally, but they have now drawn crowds from every sector, as wide as the extended industry, itself. The last one that I mentioned here had the entire third of the seating arrangement in an auditorium filled with folks from Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. That's when their primary concern was MFS, prior to the WCOM takeout, and prior to their taking share of LVLT. Regards, Frank Coluccio