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Re: Telecom Collapse?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Cowie)
Thu Dec 4 12:36:39 2008

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:36:32 -0500
From: "Jim Cowie" <cowie@renesys.com>
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081204172040.GA94137@typo.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:

> That the old ILECs are having problems due to the fact that few if any
> of them know how to run a decent business is not exactly news. IMO, it
> might be best if some of them were finaly placed in the position of
> figuring out how to come into the 21st century and actually compete
> for business.


I wasn't going to say anything, but as long as you brought it up ...

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/12/fiber-to-the-home-ideal-econom.shtml

Outlandish and bizarre, yes, but perhaps no more so than the other things
you read in the
papers these days?    --jim

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