On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote: > 1:1 figure for people age 18 - 60. Add these indicators to the fact that > most of the Internet market dominating companies are the old PTTs. All these > PTT (control freaks) are now Telcos (out to maximize share holder profit). > All of them took a lot of hard knocks in the early years, learned from their > mistakes, and now know where their markets are now going. So instead of > dealing with clueless Asian PTTs in 1995 you are dealing with really clueful > IP savvy Telcos in 2002. IP savvy Telcos who are members of the > trans-oceanic cable businesses and are the ones buying up the excess > capacity built by the failed "independent" trans-oceanic cable businesses.
And speaking of control.. don't expect those PTTs to give up control (i.e. peering) in their home markets easily. -dorian