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Where are those who believe that the Internet and optical networking wiped out the relevance of distance as a factor in telecommunications services. Don't count the RBOCs among those believers.
When I met with BellSouth executives at Supercomm last month, they made a point of saying that, just as most voice traffic today is local, most data traffic also will be local as data becomes more basic to businesses.
BellSouth cited statistics from JP Morgan predicting that revenues for local data connectivity will grow at 22 percent a year-the same growth rate projected for the IP services (i.e., dialup, DSL, dedicated Internet access, hosting and CDNs) that will go over those local connections. By contrast, long-distance data growth is forecast at...