And smaller ISPs argued that if cable is telecommunications infrastructure (as they argued it was, and cable companies swore it wasn't), they should have access to certain physical portions of it, as the law requires for other telecoms' poles and facilities.
It also included data exchanges MAE-West and PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange, facilities where telecom carriers hand off Internet traffic to each other.
Today, so-called Kitsong centres are built to house computers, telecoms services and less hi-tech facilities, such as typing and fax machines.
The Redwood City, Calif., company builds "bullet-proof" facilities in which Internet and telecom carriers can lodge equipment that lets them connect with Internet backbones and legacy networks.
Sprint Nextel, a troubled American telecoms company, recently replaced a $6 billion revolving credit facility with a $4.5 billion loan agreement due in 2010.
Specifically, Section 27 of the New York Transportation Corporations Law ("New York Telecom Law") grants Verizon the right to place its facilities upon, over or under any public streets within the State of New York.
The extra cash aims to secure the future of a European Space Agency facility at Harwell in Oxfordshire, and bring its telecoms satellite HQ to Britain.
For example, telecoms group BT offers its staff a real-time online chat facility with Relate, the family relationships charity, that can provide anonymous and convenient help.
The new firm commands such valuable telecom assets as RCN Corporation RCNCC), building wireless local loop and Internet access facilities, and has good prospects for rights of way from railroad companies linked to Kiewit.
It guaranteed that telecom startups could "co-locate" their new high-speed gear at the facilities of big, old phone companies.
