Sprint's New ION products

Wed Jun 3 17:15:04 UTC 1998

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

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Tom Walton
Director of Strategic Consulting                703-709-7500
Dimension Enterprises, Inc          225 Van Buren, Suite 180
twalton at dimension.net          Herndon, Virginia 20170 - USA

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On
Behalf Of
Paul Ferguson
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 12:14 PM
To: kbrown at primelink.com
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Sprint's New ION products

At 10:46 AM 6/3/98 -0500, kbrown at primelink.com 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