On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 00:26:51 -0700, "Roeland M.J. Meyer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A short story, PacBell spent close to 1.6 Billion (yes, that's a "B")
>building a broadband HFC system. AT&T succeeded in getting the CPUC to
>force PacBell to lease access to the system. This in spite of the fact
>that MCI/AT&T/ILECs/CLECs/etc didn't build the system. Actually
>AT&T/Lucent did a lot of work on it, but PacBell paid for it with
>non-telco revenue and ACN/CBS was not part of the core business, it was
>an affiliate. It was one of the contributing causes for the SBC decision
>to cancel the ACN/CBS project. Once they acquired PacBell.
>
>For AT&T to cry foul, in this case, is somewhat disingenuous. BTW,
>William, InterMail would benefit from this too, as would other DSO
>services. You see, TCI was forcing it's cable customers to use only
>their ISP services. I applaud the decision.
I didn't criticize the decision, it was the correct decision. I think
small to medium size ISPs will not see the benefits of this, however.
I see the "Big Boys" benefiting a LOT more from this.
BTW, DSo Internet does not operate under Intermail name any longer,
and claim no rights to use of the name.
--
William X. Walsh
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934
The Law is not your mommy or daddy to go crying
to every time you have something to whimper about.
