Oh, no. If anyone has illusions that politicos can somehow fix the situation, he ought to do serious reality check. If anything, they made that mess in the first place by creating ILEC monopolies and allowing those supposedly regulated monopilists to strange the emerging last mile broadband providers. With the obvious result of getting backbones to lose the projected traffic and revenue streams. (Of course, they were also very lax in policing conflicts of interest and accounting practices). The "serious economic trouble" means that some of those tier-1 providers will go to chapter 11, and emerge with paid-for capacity and no crippling debts (and with sane executives, too). At least 4 will survive; the potential value of the remaining ones to their creditors will grow as competitors die off. --vadim On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Gordon Cook wrote:
We are now halfway through 2002. the build out is complete and most of the builders are either in chapter 11 or in danger of going there. Does anyone believe that the non regulation arguments of the build out phase still hold? If so other than for reasons of blind ideology (all regulation by definition is bad), why?