On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, David Lesher wrote:
Tom Walton sez:
The most troubling thing to me about the ION plan is that it seems to revolve around the idea of using LEC local loops to deliver service to home customers. The LECs are not going to be enthusiastic about providing an unbundled loop to facilitate being cut out of their long-distance termination fees. This could be a very slow roll for Sprint.
Count on SPRINT being their own CLEC; why would they give away the gravy?
One measure of how serious Sprint is about ION is how their ILEC arm (ex-UTS, ex-Centel) treats it. Granted, the Sprint ILEC doesn't serve many major metropolitain areas, but it covers enough ground to make it worth watching...
Buy PBX stock, and count on the ILEC's fighting this tooth and nail, down to the last T-75 staple and pole spike.
You forgot to mention Scotchloks. ;-) --zawada Paul J. Zawada, RCDD | Senior Network Engineer zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu | National Center for Supercomputing Applications +1 630 686 7825 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/zawada