Team Effort

Sharing the blame for failures in competitive telecommunications.

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1996 - the FCC drops the green flag, and the race for competitive communications is on. What a race it is:

• Some 1500 new service providers spring up.
• The network vendors are delighted.
• Software application engineers are delighted.
• The investors are delighted.
• New services are created and brought to market by scores of new companies.

Barbara Lancaster is President of LTC International Inc.