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In article <37585@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
>Could someone confirm or explain, MCI's use of ATT uplinks and
>downlinks, and how MCI was suppose to make a profit while paying ATT
>for satilite services.

	Simple: MCI didn't have to pay AT&T to use it's long distance lines.

	Almost all third party carriers, except Sprint, use AT&T long distance
lines.  Up until January (of last year?), the breakup settlement imposed by
Judge Green required AT&T to allow use of these facilities *without charge*.

	Sprint, being a subsidiary of GTE, has had access to GTE SpaceNet
prior to geting their fiber optic network installed... under heavy access,
you can still get a circuit through SpaceNet instead of fiber.  In fact,
you can ask for this for modem connections (Sprint's time division and
frequency division multiplexing play hell with most modems).

	The concept of Boycotting AT&T is ridiculous unless one picks a long
distance service that uses a common carrier service that isn't AT&T.


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu

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