There appears to be more to Bill Shrader's
statement about the ITU than meets the eye.
The loudest and strongest statement of all on
the ITU appears actually to have been sent by
the ISP industry. It was heard through the
grapevine that they decided to boycott the ITU's
Telecom'99 Tradeshow - and in apparent retribution,
the ITU Forum'99 people failed to include a single
ISP person on its speaking agenda. About the only
exceptions were those companies that market to
telcos, or are themselves telcos.
Check it out yourself at http://www.itu.ch/
This is worth some major trade publication
reporting.
