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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Sprint's New ION products
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. This problem will not become acute until they begin deploying residential service, as many/most business customers (the initial targets) will be "on-net" with CLECS who are already interconnected with Sprint. It might be that Sprint is hoping/praying for regulatory/statutory intercession before they try to penetrate the residential market en masse. I love the telecommunications business... --Tom ==== ==== Tom Walton Director of Strategic Consulting 703-709-7500 Dimension Enterprises, Inc 225 Van Buren, Suite 180 [email protected] Herndon, Virginia 20170 - USA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sprint's New ION products At 10:46 AM 6/3/98 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > >Has anyone heard any additional information or have any more insight into >this announcement? I am curious how this might affect the remainder of the >industry. > An article I read in USAToday this morning over breakfast says it's just ATM to the home. I also just found the same article on the USAToday web site, searching for "Sprint". The article is titled "A closer look at Sprint's new plan." - paul
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