Red Herring

[rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)]

The June, 1999 issue of Red Herring has come out against OpenNet's efforts
to lobby the government into forcing AT&T/TCI to open access to its network
to AOL/US West/other OpenNet members.

The appeal made by RH is for OpenNet to turn its appeal to the consumer
markets and let the market dictate if, how and on what terms anything will
occur.

The Herring favors lonnnnnng term approaches to competition that give
markets time to adjust and self determine.....who knows? -page 24

For their part, US West walked away from a public commitment to build out
hybrid fiber coax networks throughout their region in the mid 1990's opting
instead to buy up Continental Cablevision, instead....so what is their
complaint about AT&T other than that AT&T has done, inside US West's region
what US West decided not to do.

The June issue also refused to include any incumbent local exchange
carriers like Bell Atlantic, US West and others in their "Top 100 Companies
of the Electronic Economy" citing that the ilec's are largely reactionary
and that "often their reaction is an attempt to stifle thse forces
[companies shaping new markets and technologies], to protect their existing
markets, and to ape the innovations of others." -page 134 

Rick Dahlgren
Cottonwood Communications
rd@cottonwood.com