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CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:58:05 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:51:40 -0500 (EST) From: Newmedia () aol com Subject: Re: [IP] CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE To: dave () farber net Dave:The presumption here is that the telecom companies are really important in all this -- perhaps they are not?
In order for these advanced services to be developed and rolled out, there will have to be media, finance, health-care, educational, governmental and other suppliers who have committed to next-generation services platforms. A new "on-demand" systems architecture has to be built -- why presume that Verizon et al are going to play a key role in all this?
Corporations "bypass" the telcos for their own traffic needs everyday. They will find a way to get to the consumers with these new services as well.
If the telcos act as a "bottleneck" then they will be bypassed as well -- the important question is what are the service providers doing, not what the telcos are not doing.
Best, Mark Stahlman New York City ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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