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Name: BK
Bio: Early Techno Guy began IT career in 1991.
Area of Expertise: Entrepreneur/Business Leader
Topic: Communication
Headline: No More Baby Bells
Nutshell: Wireless/VoIP will force the Baby Bells to fold.
Vision:Old Telcos will be forced to amalgamate, etc. We will go through the same thing with telcos that the Internet boom did – the small and agile new companies will become the new force.
The Baby Bells cannot replace/adopt new technology fast enough because they faced too much structure/enforcement (FCC).
Their current stronghold on customers will be their only way to continue a profit. Customers will dump the traditionals in favor of the new companies with new ideas like Vonage/eBay/Google/etc.
Date Submitted: November 11, 2004
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