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Per your request, here is the expanded version of the EBS bullet points from
Donald and I. ----- Forwarded by Scott Bolton/Enron Communications on 10/03/00 11:46 AM ----- |-------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------- | | | Donald Lassere | | | | | ? ? ? ? To: ? ? ? ?Sue| | | 10/02/00 03:13 PM | Nord/NA/Enron@Enron | | | | ? ? ? ? cc: | | | | Scott Bolton/Enron | | | | Communications@Enron | | | | Communications | | | | ? ? ? ? Subject: | | | | Bullet points for Rick| |-------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------- | YR2000 Protect and Enhance Existing Assets and Positions BLM/Forest Service Rights-of-Way Issue - Defeat new federal policy to charge exorbitant fees and conditions on right-of-way usage. Day-to-day Global Risk Management support - Providing regulatory and analytical support to Trading desk and to commercial deal teams to mitigate regulatory risk and structure deals to avoid regulatory/policy obstacles. Support Potential Transactions Curtailment of USF, taxes and avoidance of common carrier regulation - Provide deal structuring support to limit financial risk to commercial groups and trading desk. Provided regulatory analysis to allow bandwidth to be traded on EOL - Provided due diligence and structuring advice to allow bandwidth to be bought and sold in a new on-line format; avoiding common carrier regulation due to new format. New Market Development Domestic licensing initiative to support of BWT - Enabling greater time to market for bandwidth trading by securing state PUC certificates. This initiative also allows physical infrastructure deployment as part of bandwidth trading network architecture. Latin American and Canadian regulatory analysis and licensing to support BWT and Media Cast - Performed basic market entry licensing for commercial teams with an emphasis on avoiding traditional regulation on Media cast and advanced services. Create and Exploit Opportunities Ability to obtain Wholesale Prices on Bandwidth and Interconnection - Using regulatory conditions of the '96mTelecom Act to improve positions and quickly provision services to customers. Avoidance of "telecommunications service" regulation of Internet Apps, IP Products and Media Cast ?- Carefully guided commercial groups in legal structure, marketing, tax, and physical deployment of service to avoid traditional telecom regulation. YR2001 Protect and Enhance Existing Assets and Positions Legislative action in support of BLM/Forest Service Rights-of-Way Issue - Continue to curtail onerous right-of-way regulation; participate in federal avisory commission on right-of-way use. Continued day-to-day Global Risk Management support - Provide regulatory and analytical support to Trading desk and to commercial deal teams to mitigate regulatory risk and structure deals to avoid regulatory/policy obstacles. Support Potential Transactions Support Blockbuster VOD and other multimedia initiatives - Provide regulatory due diligence and policy support to enable VOD and other advanced services to be rolled-out. ?Coordinate EBS efforts with content and distribution partners. Continued curtailment of USF, taxes and avoidance of common carrier regulation of Bandwidth Trading in the Americas - Continue structuring advice to comply with country regulation and the mitigation of financial and regulatory risk. New Market Development Spectrum trading and new markets - Supporting commercial teams by providing research and policy development to open new markets or make existing markets more competitive. Deregulation/regulatory forbearance in Latin America - Begin pro-competitive de-regulation effort in "closed" market countries on Latin America. Create and Exploit Opportunities Establishment of national CLECs in North and South America - This initiative will allow the deployment of infrastructure for bandwidth trading and local loop provisioning. Collaborate with International Tax to minimize EBS's tax exposure in Latin America and Canada ?- ? Develop structuring models to reduce tax risk on international transactions; seek rulings on how cross-bporder bandwidth transactions will be treated.
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