>"Between 1996 and 2000, [telecommunications firms] took on $800
>billion in bank debt and issued $450 billion in bonds.... In 2000,
>no fewer than six U.S. companies were building new, mutually
>competitive, nationwide fiber-optic networks. Hundreds more were
>laying down local lines and several were also competing on
>sub-oceanic links. All told, 39 million miles of fiber-optic line
>now crisscross the United States...." Robert Brenner, "Towards the
>Precipice," London Review of Books (February 6, 2003).
Don't they know he's a commie?
Doug