Vadim wrote:

Five years ago, the idea of a telco doing Internet was so ridiculous that my friends laughed at me. Now, try to find telco which doesn't have an Internet service.

It's easy if you look at telephone cooperatives and other small telcos. In any case, there are alot of things that looked ridiculous to the telcos five years ago. Such things as selling customers dedicated DS-3s looked ridiculous to many of them (even today, some telcos can't/won't do this). xDSL and ISDN were (and still are) pretty funny to some telcos. -- Stan | Academ Consulting Services |internet: sob@academ.com Olan | For more info on academ, see this |uucp: {mcsun|amdahl}!academ!sob Barber | URL- http://www.academ.com/academ |Opinions expressed are only mine.