This doesn't even take into consideration the other nationals and the smaller long distance providers who are gearing up for dial-up, local telephone access, cable, etc. No matter how good your customer service and tech support is today your cash flow has got to be in content tomorrow. Content providers have the flexibility of developing their niche, geographical, industry, service, etc.
Nobody survives head-on collision with freight trains.
If you don't have a strategy to coexist with these folks then go back to the drawing board and think harder. Helping businesses grow through new and evolving markets. This is a fake email address. So many old members of this list were getting spam generated from siphons trolling the archives that I replaced all email addresses with randomly generated spam traps that forward mail to spam fighters. If you need to reach individuals mentioned in these archives, use a search engine to find their current location, as these addresses and archives date from 1994 to 1996.