The ITU said that the outcome confirms the industry's forecast
that Y2K-related concerns are unlikely to impact international
calling in any major way during the century date change or leap
year periods.

This is a phony telephony statement!

US West went down last week after updating their software.
US West computers go down with computer glitch

Zimbabwe hasn't recovered yet from their upgrade.
Telkom is still plagued with problems {Zimbabwe}

Columbia has had it's share of problems.
Long distance,local and cellular phone service interrupted

And where in the world is it November 22?
Y2K No Threat To Telephony

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 20, 1999