By the end of 1995 there will be three to six new Local Exchange Carriers in almost all major U.S. markets. This change will tower above any of the changes that we may have seen in the breakup of AT&T and competition in the inter-exhange market. It will be one of the dominant drivers in expanding Internet use and enabling the multiple-hosts-per-user world described in this paper.
Predictor: McGarty, Terrence P.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User'” by Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. McGarty is chairman and CEO of The Telemarc Group, Inc. and Haywood is with RAM Mobile Data Inc. They write: ”By the end of 1995 there will be three to six new Local Exchange Carriers in almost all major U.S. markets. This change will tower above any of the changes that we may have seen in the breakup of AT&T and competition in the inter-exhange market. It will be one of the dominant drivers in expanding Internet use and enabling the multiple-hosts-per-user world described in this paper.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 260
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne