One issue that purchasers of capacity on AC-1 might have to face is that Global Crossing seem to see themselves as mainly being in the business of providing undersea cable capacity, rather than "city-to-city" capacity. The distinction does not matter much in the USA, where the "back-haul" between the landing stations and the city centres can be provided by very well-developed and competitive suppliers of telecoms infrastructure, but it is important in Europe, where the cross-border telecoms infrastructure is poorly developed. If potential customers such as the smaller Internet Service Providers in Europe have to pay very high prices to connect to the AC-1 landing stations they might prefer, for example, to acquire capacity on Gemini, with Worldcom providing the "back-haul" over Ulysses. But this battle is not yet over. While Gemini offers good interconnection to FLAG, and one can assume that its connectivity to Worldcom services will be good, Global Crossing has made some traffic exchange agreements with Qwest. Qwest is rapidly developing an extensive fibre optic infrastructure in the USA, but has not, to my knowledge, yet announced any similar plans in Europe.