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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10469)	6/5/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

The regular ISP, as you put it, would simply re-point their T1 facilities to the MSO's head end, instead of the dial up pool in the central office. [[And while I state this as a remotely plausible outcome, at best, I would also have to acknowledge that the degree of logistics involved to this end would be Herculean, when viewed across the larger base of providers. I keep thinking about the T-1 facilities of AOL and ELNK, the two largest ISPs and I keep coming up with the same Herculean problem. It is easy to say it is simple to provision the headend with equipment, but there is also the little matter of trunks to the 'bone and all the other details in between. Perhaps Sprint would assist ELNK in creating such an infrastructure. At what cost and in what time frame? There also is this little matter of the ins and outs of the cable last mile plant. Sprint doesn't know squat about that. Again, it is easy to say the beam goes in at this point and that's it, but the guys struggling with cable plant will have to be invoked to get the beam out the other end.