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From: ehopper@ehpcb.wlk.com (Ed Hopper)
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Subject: Re: Alternate Telephone Service
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asuvax!rako!rakoczynskij@ncar.ucar.edu (Jurek Rakoczynski) writes:

> Can anyone summarize the status of 'Alternate Telephone Service
> supplier'.  I can only remember about some larger city (NY?) where a
> (cable co.?) was installing (fiber optics?) to the homes and was
> planning to provide alternate phone service in competion with the
> local telco. This was in addition to other services available on the
> fiber.  I don't remember where I read this, but I am not confusing
> this with just running fiber to the homes, like in California.  I
> remember the term 'Alternate Telephone Service' or something like
> that.

I recall reading the other day that a firm (in NYC I believe) recently
began work on a fiber net to connect major buildings in Manhattan for
bypass purposes.  This venture was NOT intended to provide residential
service (except perhaps to some big residential buildings on an
incidental basis).  I don't believe that exchange service was the
objective, it was more designed to provide inter-exchange services via
T-1's etc to the various LD carriers.


Ed Hopper