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        > Howabout offering us your pearls and letting us in on who these > mysterious select group of 'real' tier one networks are? By comparing competing claims, I think I've decifered the "tier" system: Tier 1 is the claimant's marketing department. Tier 2 is the claimant's customers and the claimant's competitors. Tier 3 is the claimant's customer customers, competitors' customers, and customers' competitors. -Bill