[9531] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Sprint Response to MCI Announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Deutsch)
Fri Jan 7 18:04:59 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 18:01:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Deutsch <deutsch@ba.com>
To: "Robert D. Collet Sprint GSD" <rcollet@icm1.icp.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, rcollet@icm1.icp.net
In-Reply-To: <9401071722.AA33491@Collet.icm1 Telnet Session>
Here is Bell Atlantic's response to the MCI Annoucement.
The following News Release was sent out by Bell Atlantic. Bell
Atlantic has created an anonymous FTP site at <ba.com>,
which contains documents relating to telecommunications
issues.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact- Eric Rabe 703-974-3036
January 4, 1994 <rabe@ba.com>
Shannon Fioravanti 703-974-5455
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Bell Atlantic Response to MCI/BT Metro Local Service Plans
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Attribute to James G. Cullen, President Bell Atlantic
MCI today announced that it is in favor of competition
in every market but its own. MCI/BT -- partly owned by
British Telecom -- now wants to enter the local telephone
market while keeping others out of the long distance
market.
Bell Atlantic has long argued that to be successful in
the future, telecommunications companies must be able to
offer a full range of services. MCI/BT acknowledged that
today. Yet MCI/BT insists that even while it offers local
telephone services, companies like ours should not be
permitted to enter the long distance oligopoly controlled
by MCI/BT, AT&T and Sprint.
The American people have everything to gain and
nothing to lose by allowing Bell Atlantic to offer long
distance service now -- not ten years from now.
British Telecom is not the only foreign telephone
company invading the U.S. It would be foolish for
regulatory policy to encourage foreign investors to re-
colonize America while domestic telecommunications
companies are restricted from fully competing.
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Ken Deutsch
Issue Dynamics Inc. | deutsch@ba.com
