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Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000, 11:29 AM -0500
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Subject: Faulkner Com Flash 02/22/2000 - (Part 3 of 3)

Personnel and Organizational Changes 
	 Industry sources reported that H. Eugene Lockhart, head of AT&T's $22
billion consumer business, is leaving the company. It is rumored that
Lockhart obtained a position at a small startup company. AT&T and Lockhart
declined to comment.
	 Cablevision Systems created four core business teams to strengthen the
company's New York market operations. They are: consumer telecommunications
services fulfillment; consumer product management and sales; retail
business; and business telecommunications services. The company appointed
the following four executives to manage the teams: Pat Falese--senior vice
president, product management and sales; Steve Rabbitt--senior vice
president, retail business; Eric Tveter--senior vice president, business
telecommunications services and business product management; and Craig
Watson--senior vice president, consumer telecommunications services
fulfillment. Comcast Cable Communications promoted Donald R. Erickson,
	 Thomas R. Nathan, and Sheila R. Willard to Senior Vice President.
	 DDI said it is considering doing away with Nippon Iridium, the Japanese
division of failing satellite operator Iridium. With a 35.7-percent stake,
DDI is the largest shareholder in Nippon Iridium, and Nippon Iridium owns
11.2 percent of Iridium. If the unit is dissolved, DDI will assume its
existing clients.
	 Deutsche Telekom said it will hire 2000 new customer service employees for
One 2 One. Of these jobs, 1000 would be at a new call center that is being
constructed in Wales. The new hirings are part of One 2 One's $138.9-million
plan to expand its customer service infrastructure.
	 Ericsson appointed Per-Arne Sandstrom Executive VP, Head of Market Area
North America. Sandstrom is currently the company's Head of Business Unit
GSM-Systems. He will replace Bo Dimert.
	 Global Crossing's joint venture with Softbank and Microsoft, Asia Global
Crossing, named John Legere CEO. He will manage undersea cables and networks
and implement web-hosting, co-location, and data products and services.
	 GST Telecommunications floated 2.1 million shares of common stock in
	 Global Light Telecommunications for $30 million.
	 Lucent Technologies is shelling out $30 million to expand its
	 manufacturing operations to increase the output of optical networking
components. The company posted a 23 percent loss in first-quarter profits
because it could not keep up with customer demand for optical networking
products. As part of the expansion, Lucent will build a 143,000 square foot
building at its optoelectronics facility in Breinigsville, Pennsylavania,
and renovate facilities in nearby Reading. The expansion is expected to
create 500 new jobs in various Lucent locations this year. The company also
announced plans to invest $1 billion in optoelectronics R&D over the next
three years. Nortel Networks is investing $260 million and hiring 3400
	 employees to expand its fiber-optics equipment business. The positions
will be crated in the areas of manufacturing, engineering, supply chain
management, and customer service.
	 Telecom Italia will attempt to jump start Italy's lagging Internet
penetration rate by combining Tin.it, its ISP business, with Seat Pagine
Gialle, an Internet portal operator, in a three-step deal. The company said
it will first raise its stake in Seat to 29.9 percent, then it will merge it
with Tin.it, and finally it will launch a bid for all of Seat. Both
companies are expected to vote on the plan shortly. Telecom Italia had
originally planned to float about 20 percent of Tin.it this summer.
	 Telefonica unveiled plans to float Telefonica Moviles, its mobile arm,
sometime in November. A newspaper reported that the unit will undergo a
change in its executive management prior to going to the stock market.
Moviles is the sixth-largest mobile company in the world.
	 Vodafone AirTouch will float 20 to 25 percent of Vodafone Pacific, a
wireless operator servicing the Asia/Pacific region, this summer through an
IPO. The offering is expected to rank among one of the largest in Australia
this year, raking in about $2.6 billion. Pacific is 91-percent owned by
Vodafone and it has about 1.7 million customers in Australia, New Zealand,
and Figi. The company is floating part of Pacific to gain regulatory
approval for its plans to restructure in the region. The funds generated
will go towards alleviating the hit Vodafone's wallet is taking from its
acquisition of Mannesmann.

Regulatory News 
	 Antitrust officials for the European Union began looking into the
	 unusually high roaming charges that mobile operators slap their customers
with when they use their phones in other countries. The commission said its
initial findings show that some carriers charge a 500 percent increase for
roaming calls. The commission said that with the widespread deployment of
GSM technology and the increasing number of cross-border alliances there is
no viable reason for roaming charges to be so high. The International
Telecommunications Users Group (Intug) is urging the EU to remedy this price
discrepancy by setting roaming charges at 0.50 euros per minute. The
	 National Governors' Association urged governors to cut high taxes that
are suffocating providers of traditional and cell phone services, Internet,
pagers, and other digital-age technology or risk derailing the digital
economy. The NGA encouraged that outdated tax policies that favor one
technology over another and discourage progress be re-written. The 19-member
panel appointed last year by NGA Chairman Michael Leavitt could call for a
repeal of the century-old three percent excise tax on telecommunications
services, however, he said that states and localities should follow suit and
cut back their own old telecommunications taxes. Leavitt also addressed the
issue of taxing telecommunications services that are bundled in one bill,
citing that telephone, cable, and Internet are all handled differently. The
	 FTC, not the Justice Department, will handle the investigation of America
Online's proposed $127 billion acquisition of Time Warner. At a public
	 forum held by the FCC, the Telecommunications Advocacy Project (TAP)
urged the agency to deny the AT&T -MediaOne merger or mandate
nondiscriminatory practices as a condition of the license transfer. Other
opponents of the deal questioned AT&T's commitment to offering local phone
service and accused the company of trying to dominate the market for cable
programming and high-speed Internet service. According the Priscilla
Hill-Ardoin, a vice president at SBC Communications, the marriage will give
AT&T control of 98 percent of high-speed Internet cable subscribers and
interests in 60 percent of the most popular cable programming. AT&T and
MediaOne contend that the merger will give consumers a greater choice in
local phone and Internet service. Although AT&T has taken steps to persuade
regulators that the deal falls within the parameters of cable rules, it
already requested an 18-month waiver if the FCC decides that it still needs
to take steps to comply.
	 AT&T requested that the Texas Public Utility Commission investigate
Southwest Bell's claim that it cannot transfer customers to AT&T and local
phone service providers. When the PUC approved Southwest Bell's long
distance request, Bell claimed it could process 2000 orders per hour, but
now claims it can process only 500. AT&T wants the Texas PUC to find
solutions. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the merger of
	 GTE and Bell Atlantic. The state of California and the FCC are the only
regulatory bodies left to review the deal.
	 MCI WorldCom and Sprint offered undisclosed concessions to the European
Commission, which extended the deadline for the merger review to February
23. The EU and the US Justice Department are concerned that the merged
companies may hold too much of the Internet backbone business.
	 The battle between the FCC and NextWave Telecommunications over the
bankrupt company's wireless assets has been taken to a new level. Nextel
petitioned to regain the licenses, which the FCC hopes to reauction.
NextWave claims that it will pay its debts in full, however, the FCC
contends that the company lost all control of the licenses when it failed to
make payments. A New York bankruptcy court rejected the FCC's position,
which led the Commission to appeal the decision to the US Court. The Court
of Appeals recommended that the FCC prepared for a July auction of the
licenses while the court comes to a decision. The FCC needs the court's
approval before the auction can take place.
	 Vodafone AirTouch filed papers with the European Union in an attempt to
	 get approval from antitrust authorities concerning the company's pending
acquisition of Mannesmann. Vodafone did not disclose the specifics of the
filings, but it said that they did include what the company plans to do with
Orange, the mobile operator acquired by Mannesmann last year.

Satellite Services and Service Providers 
	 Globalstar launched its final four low-earth-orbiting satellites as spares
for its global mobile telephone system constellation. The launch completes
the constellation, which consists of 48 operating satellites in addition to
the four spares.
	 Microsoft partnered with Israel's Gilat Satellite Networks to provide the
first consumer two-way satellite broadband service. Microsoft will invest
$50 million in newly-formed Gilat-To-Home to obtain a 26 percent stake in
the company. The service, to be based on Gilat's SkyBlaster IP product, will
offer Internet speeds at up to ten times faster than normal modem speeds.
The companies expect to launch the service in the second half of this year
in areas where high-speed Internet cable is not available. Monthly fees are
expected to range from $55 to $70.

Network Switching 
	 Cybex Computer Products Corporation introduced the first in a series of
products designed specifically for the growing ISP, ASP, CLEC, and ILEC
markets. The AutoView 200 is a 48-volt, two-user KVM switch for Internet
infrastructure providers who have standardized on 48-volt power in their
central offices.

Wide Area Networking 
	 3Com Corporation, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Intel, Nortel Networks,
Sun Microsystems, and World Wide Packets formed the 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Alliance to promote 10 Gigabit Ethernet for LAN, MAN, and WAN markets and to
support the IEEE 802.3 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards process.

PCS and Wireless Communications 
	 AAPT of Australia and Telecom New Zealand awarded Lucent Technologies
contracts, valued at $400, to build new wireless mobile phone networks using
CDMA technology. Lucent will supply and install mobile switching centers,
base stations, micro cells, voicemail, and messaging services. In addition,
the company will also provide software and professional services to AAPT.
The commercial launch date for the networks in scheduled for late 2000.
	 In an effort to promote wireless e-mail software, telecom service provider
American Mobile Satellite and Internet messaging company Critical Path
entered into an agreement that allows Critical Path to use American Mobile's
network to provide wireless transmission of e-mail services. The companies
also plan to join forces on marketing and sales initiatives.
	 Nuevo Grupo Iusacell, the second largest wireless operator in Mexico,
signed a deal with Globalstar de Mexico, a division of Globalstar, to start
offering satellite communications services to its customers.
	 Symbian previewed its first reference design platform, a PDA-like
communications that also acts as a mobile phone. Quartz, based on Symbian's
EPOC operating environment, is the first of three reference design
platforms. Quartz's specifications are: a 10-centimeter color screen with
320-by-240 pixel resolution; a pen-based design with single-tap access to
applications; support for the Bluetooth wireless spec and infrared; Web
browsing using WAP and HTML; and support for both CompactFlash and SD memory
cards. Customers that have a Bluetooth headset also can use the device as a
mobile phone. Symbian predicts that the devices will have 16MB of RAM and a
ROM of at least 12MB. Java and C++ SKDs for Quartz are due by mid-year, and
devices are expected to start shipping by the end of the year.


COMPANY WEB SITES

3Com Corporation	http://www.3com.com/
AAPT	http://www.aapt.com.au/
Able Telecom Holding Corp	http://www.abte.com/
ADC	http://www.adc.com/
Airtel	http://www.airtel.es/
Alcatel	http://www.alcatel.com/
America Online	http://www.aol.com/
American Mobile Satellite	http://www.ammobile.com/
American Telecasting	http://www.amtele.com/
Ameritech	http://www.ameritech.com/
AT&T	http://www.att.com/
AT&T Canada	http://www.attcanada.ca/
AT&T Wireless Services	http://www.attws.com/
Australian Competition and BBVA	http://www.banco.com.es/
BC Partners	http://www.bcpartners.com/
BCE	http://www.bce.ca/
Bell Atlantic	http://www.bellatlantic.com/
Bell Canada	http://www.bell.ca /
BellSouth	http://www.bellsouthcorp.com/
BT	http://www.bt.com/
Cable & Wireless	http://www.cwplc.com/
Cable & Wireless HKT	http://www.hkt.com/
Cabletron Systems	http://www.cabletron.com/
Cablevision Systems	http://www.cablevision.com/
Callahan Associates	http://www.callahanassoc.com/
Charter Communications	http://www.charter.com/
Cheung Kong Holdings	http://www.ckh.com.hk/
Cisco Systems	http://www.cisco.com/
Club Internet	http://www.club-internet.fr/
Comcast Cable Communications	http://www.comcast.com/
Comdirect	http://www.comdirect.de/
Commerzbank	http://www.commerzbank.com/
Commission	http://www.accc.gov.au/
Corning	http://www.corning.co.uk/
Cox Communications	http://www.cox.com/
Critical Path	http://www./
CTI Movil	http://www.cti.com.ar/
Cybex Computer Products 	http://www.cybex.com/
DDI	http://www.ddi.co.jp/
Deutsche Telekom	http://www.dtag.de/
DIGEX	http://www.digex.com/
Dimension Enterprises	http://www.dimension.net/
e.spire Communications	http://www2.espire.net/
ECI Telecom	http://www.ecitele.com/
eisa	http://www.eisa.net.au/
Embratel	http://www.embratel.net.br/
Ericsson	http://www.ericsson.se/
Euroweb International	http://www.euroweb.co.uk/
Extreme Networks	http://www.extremenetworks.com/
FCC	http://www.fcc.gov/
France Telecom	http://www.francetelecom.fr/
Gilat Satellite Networks	http://www.gilat.com/
Global Crossing	http://www.globalcrossing.com/
Globalstar	http://www.globalstar.com/
GRCI	http://www.grci.com/
Groupe Videotron	http://www.videotron.com/
Grupo Clarin	http://www.grupoclarin.com.ar/
GST Telecommunications	http://www.gst.com/
GTE	http://www.gte.com/
Hewlett-Packard	http://www.hp.com/
Hicks, Muse, Furst, & Tate	http://www.hicksmuse.com/
Hutchison Whampoa	http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/
iGo	http://www.igo.com/
Infonet	http://www.infonet.com/
Intel	http://www.intel.com/
Intermedia Communications	http://www.intermedia.net/
Iridium	http://www.iridium.int/
Kirch Gruppe	http://www.kirchgruppe.de/
KPN Telecom	http://www.kpn-telecom.nl/
Loral Space & Communications	http://www.loral.com/
Lucent Technologies	http://www.lucent.com/
Mannesmann	http://www.mannesmann.de/
MCI WorldCom	http://www.wcom.com/
MediaOne	http://www.mediaone.com/
MFS Communications	http://www.mfsdatanet.com/
Microsoft	http://www.microsoft.com/
NetSpeak	http://www.netspeak.com/
Network Access Solutions	http://www.naswireless.com/
NetZero	http://www.netzero.com/
New Networks Institute	http://www.newnetworks.com/
NextWave Telecommunications	http://www.nextwave.com/
Nokia	http://www.nokia.com/
Nortel Networks	http://www.nortelnetworks.com/
NorthPoint Communications	http://www.northpoint.com/
NTL	http://www.ntl.co.uk/
NTT	http://www.ntt.co.jp/
NTT DoCoMo	http://www.docomo.com/
NYNEX	http://www.nynex.com/
Ohio PUC	http://mabel.puc.ohio.gov/
Olivetti	http://www.olivetti.it/
One 2 One	http://www.one2one.co.uk/
Oracle	http://www.oracle.com/
Orange	http://www.orange.co.uk/
Ortel	http://www.ortel.com/
OzEmail	http://www.ozemail.com.au/
Pacific Bell	http://www.pacbell.com/
Pacific Century Group	http://www.pcentury.com/
PairGain Technologies	http://www.pairgain.com/
PictureTel	http://www.picturetel.com/
Portal Software	http://www.portal.com/
Portugal Telecom	http://www.telecom.pt/
PRIMUS Telecommunications	http://www.primustel.com/
PSINet	http://www.psi.net/
PUC of RCN	http://www.rcn.com/
Rhythms NetConnections	http://www.rhythms.net/
Rogers Communications	http://www.rogers.com/
Royal KPN Telecom	http://www.kpn-telecom.nl/
SBC Communications	http://www.sbc.com/
Seat Pagine Gialle	http://www.seatpaginegialle.it/
Siemens ICN	http://www.icn.siemens.com/
SingTel	http://www.singtel.com/
SIRIT Technologies	http://www.sirit.com/
Softbank	http://www.softbank.co.jp/
Sonera	http://www.sonera.fi/
Southwest Bell	http://www.swbell.com/
Sprint	http://www.sprint.com/
Sun Microsystems	http://www.sun.com/
Symbian	http://www.symbian.com/
Systems	http://www.fbcs.fujitsu.com/
T-Mobil	http://www.tmobil.de/
T-Online	http://www.t-online.de/
Telecom Italia	http://www.telecomitalia.it/
Telecom Italia Mobile	http://www.tim.it/
Telecom New Zealand	http://www.tlecom.nz/
Telefonica	http://www.telefonica.es/
Telefonos de Mexico	http://www.telmex.com/
Teleglobe	http://www.teleglobe.com/
Telia	http://www.telia.se/
Teligent	http://www.teligent.com/
Telmex	http://www.telmex.com.mx/
Telstra	http://www.telstra.com/
Time Warner	http://www.timewarner.com/
Time Warner Telecom	http://www.twtelecom/
Tin.it	http://www.tin.it/
Toshiba	http://www.toshiba.com/
Travelocity.com	http://www.travelocity.com/
US WEST	http://www.uswest.com/
Visa International	http://www.visa.com/
Vivendi	http://www.vivendi.fr/
Vodafone AirTouch	http://www.vodafone-airtouch-plc.com/
Williams Communications	http://www.wilcom.com/
Wireless One	http://www.wireless-one.com/
World Wide Packets	http://www.worldwidepackets.com/
Zip.net	http://www.zip.net/


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