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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
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Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Date: 12 Feb 1995 01:22:24 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3hjnsg$p7b@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <3hb0tp$er9@park.uvsc.edu> <D3puu7.2rC@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hdgr4$qfn@park.uvsc.edu> <D3sEA4.8EK@bonkers.taronga.com>
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peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
] >Once you and the recipient of your voice call have sufficiently
] >large pipes, how are they going to dictate backbone usage?
]
] They're not. Communications is fast becoming a commodity market. Why do you
] think the phone companies are trying so hard to get into programming?
Actually, what I see them killing themselves over is labelling
themselves "infrastructure for the information super highway".
"Purveyors of fine wires", if you will.
I see this every time there's an AT&T commercial.
I also see MCI, SPRINT, and AT&T verbally bashing the crap out
of each other about "calling circles" and other crap that boils
down to time metered long distance services. It seems to me
that this indicates that they feel it is and will continue to
be a lucrative market.
Hardly a commodity.
The question becomes one of how they will protect the value of
the market they ar fighting for once they have won it.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.