[jayef]

So you don't like TELRIC, eh? What a shock. So why did the ILECs agree to those rates? Couldn't wait to sink your teeth into those LD revenues, eh? It was a deal, remember. Quid pro quo. Now the ILECs are trying to weasel out.

Exlplian to me how the public has picked up the tab for CLECs that have failed? By the way, my company is profitable and I assure you there are no kids or socialists here.

[Bogey78O]

The long distance market fell out. The Bells didn't mind a bad deal when they were getting a good deal on LD but now that's gone.

Sure the public didn't take the hit from failed CLEC's. Lucent and Nortel stockholders did though.