Short answer: No. Long answer: There's a California PUC regulation that prevents those fine companies from forming NNIs. (Thanks to Ralph Whitmore of Interworld for that tidbit.) That doesn't prevent someone from creating a private NNI, but as I've learned, GTE's really willing, ready, and able to sell you light to nowhere. Some members of their sales force need a little more education about what's feasible and what's not. Of course, there's more history to this problem than meets the eye but that still doesn't solve my immediate connectivity problem from El Segundo to Marina Del Rey (Lost Angels) with an ATM pipe to nowhere... Many thanks to Rodney Joffe (sp?) and Ralph Whitmore.

I've got an unique situation which I'm more than happy to elucidate via private e-mail which has me asking the question, "Does MCI or Sprint have an NNI to GTE's ATM cloud in So. Cal?"

-scooter -- Scott Michel scottm@aero.org Member of Technical Staff, CSRD 310/336-5034 The Aerospace Corporation