This document may be redistributed provided that the 11 lines containing this notice accompany it. These days, you can't be too rich, or too young, or have too much dark fiber buried down by the railroad track. The White House and the FCC are on opposite sides, and the industry is clearly split between the old Intelligent Network crowd and the new Stupids.
Regulation is the biggest uncertainty, but technology marches on.
Struggling against technological advance, especially when it is in the service of fundamental human needs, seems distracting and wasteful. If the captains of the great age of sail could've taxed the steam ship, they would have. Wouldn't have changed a thing. At the Last Mile, the surging, synergistic pseudo-conflict between DSL and Cable Modems is on every investor's lips. Probably Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Mike Eisner, Barry Diller, and The Dreamworks Three.