How about that MCI/WorldCom? They launched a service in "32 states and 53 million households" called The Neighborhood built by MCI. It's a flat-rate offering for $49.99 that offers for a single price "unlimited any-distance" calling. Not bad. It is unlcear if this service is for regulators to keep upen unbundled network elements (in 1999 the FCC decided that ILECs don't have to offer UNEs for CLECs when there are three or more lines/sub and it's a top 50 market)....then...today Bernie Ebbers quits. Oh how the mighty have fallen.