IP: bandwidth commodity trading...

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:36:45 -0700
>To: dave@farber.net, laubach@matmos.com
>From: "Suzanne M. Johnson" <sjohnson@cncdsl.com>
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>Bandwidth commodity trading is here....
>
>http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=DI-CO-20000630-005550.djm
>l&template=bb-company-news^ENE
>
>Bandwidth Trading Catches Attention Of Telecom
>  Carriers
>
>  Dow Jones Newswires
>
>  HOUSTON -- Telecommunications carriers are paying more attention to the
>growing bandwidth
>  trading movement, according to carrier company executives speaking at an
>industry conference in
>  New York this week.
>
>  It's no longer a question of if there will be a market for trading telecom
>bandwidth under standard
>  terms and conditions, Patrick Sheridan, commercial director of Cable &
>Wireless USA, a unit of
>  Cable & Wireless PLC (CWP), told Risk Magazine's Bandwidth Trading
>Congress. It's now a
>  question of when.
>.....clip