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Wow. Life Imitates FOIB

Wow. Is this Senator Hollings a secret FOIB member? Or maybe the split that I was advocating is just plain common sense. Being a socialist, I took it further by nationalizing the local loop / wholesale side of the business. But within reasonable confines this guy has...

FW: PhoneFree changed their business model

PhoneFree http://www.phonefree.com has changed their business model and will no longer support PC-to-Phone traffic. Current users have received notice; once the allotted time, that was purchased, has been used up service will be terminated. They had almost 4,000,000...

Re: Level3 On The Hotseat..

On 5/23/01 8:12 PM, “Ian Andrew Bell” wrote: > There is indeed a serious glut of bandwidth on the horizon and not too many > avenues of escape. Among the many missed hurdles is the fact that consumer > broadband growth is way behind projections....

Level3 On The Hotseat..

All of the IXCs, especially fibre carriers, are being hit especially hard now that the perception of business data’s growth has slowed.. Now Level3 is facing difficult questions about whether or not they’ve actually built something that people need. While...

De-Lousing the Telephone Network.

Based on what’s been happening with the California Power Crisis I’m starting to develop the opinion that deregulation and competition don’t actually work very well, when one operator among a group of competitors has to actually build and maintain the...