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		<title>By: Time for a Web 2.0 Vulture Fund? - GigaOM</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2003/02/13/the-telecom-survivors/#comment-95839</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Time for a Web 2.0 Vulture Fund? - GigaOM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;p&gt;[...] in the dark days of the telecom depression, some crazy mavericks started buying up distressed telecom assets, packaging them and flipping them for a nifty profit. More recently, many [...]&lt;/p&gt;]]></description>
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		<title>By: Om Malik on Broadband : &#187; Level 3 Looking for a Metro Makeover</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2003/02/13/the-telecom-survivors/#comment-95838</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Om Malik on Broadband : &#187; Level 3 Looking for a Metro Makeover]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;p&gt;[...] It is now positioned with metro circles in fast growth South-East US markets like Florida, Georgia and Virginia. The new fiber aside, Level 3 will be able to add approximately $70 million in revenues and approximately $7 million of annualized positive free cash flow from the PT business. If this deal is going to help Level 3, it is also good news for Sean Doherty, a former @Home executive who was part of my story, The Pragmatics: telecom&#8217;s survivors, in the old Red Herring. Sean had started Odyssey back during the telecom bust, at a time when most people were hitting the exits. He had basically decided that because everyone was dumping, and prices were falling, it was time to pick up bargains. He did, and in December 2002 bought his first fiber company, EPIK Communications. Days before that company was going to be auctioned off. In December 2003, he merged EPIK with Progress Telecom.&#160;&#160;Funnily enough, Sean had once told me that he actually got paid to take EPIK off the investors hand. Well, three years and patience has turned that into a whole lotta dollars. [...]&lt;/p&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] It is now positioned with metro circles in fast growth South-East US markets like Florida, Georgia and Virginia. The new fiber aside, Level 3 will be able to add approximately $70 million in revenues and approximately $7 million of annualized positive free cash flow from the PT business. If this deal is going to help Level 3, it is also good news for Sean Doherty, a former @Home executive who was part of my story, The Pragmatics: telecom&#8217;s survivors, in the old Red Herring. Sean had started Odyssey back during the telecom bust, at a time when most people were hitting the exits. He had basically decided that because everyone was dumping, and prices were falling, it was time to pick up bargains. He did, and in December 2002 bought his first fiber company, EPIK Communications. Days before that company was going to be auctioned off. In December 2003, he merged EPIK with Progress Telecom.&#160;&#160;Funnily enough, Sean had once told me that he actually got paid to take EPIK off the investors hand. Well, three years and patience has turned that into a whole lotta dollars. [...]</p>
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		<link>http://gigaom.com/2003/02/13/the-telecom-survivors/#comment-95836</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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