IP: bandwidth commodity trading...

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:36:45 -0700
> To: dave () farber net, laubach () matmos com
> From: "Suzanne M. Johnson" <sjohnson () cncdsl com>
>
>
> 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