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Re: Telecomm regulation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Elston)
Thu Apr 28 18:55:21 1994

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 12:09:25 -0700
To: avg@sprint.net, brodsky@radiomail.net
From: stevee@svi.org (Steve Elston)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com

Anyone, who for an instant, believes that long-distance (or alternate
access providers of any type for that matter) want regulatory barriers to
come down so they can enter the local (loop) access market, well I've got
some land in Whitewater, Ark. for you.  Sprint does not want to provide
Granny and Auntie M in Booneville their POTS service - They want to cream
skim the Inter-LATA business traffic from the RBOCS - period. There really
is nothing wrong with that strategy from a revenue generation/business
standpoint, just don't position altruistic rationale as reasoning behind
regulatory reform.





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