Who will be the leaders?

Demand for connectivity is driving the demand for raw communications capacity;
but Who will provide it?

Communication bandwidth vs. Price (the price/performance issue of the 1990s)

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Who will the new communication companies be? Probably not who you expect!

• A leading U.S. long haul network operator is Wiltel [now part of WorldCom]
  (ran fibers inside their natural gas distribution network!)
• Banverket, Vattenfall, Stockab {the City of Stockholm}, ... - all have major fiber installations