Nancy Kaplan of Adventis, a telecoms consultancy, thinks that any attempt to restructure WorldCom will fail.

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They should concentrate on business users, advises Andrew Cole of Adventis, a telecoms consultancy.

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Nextel has an entrepreneurial, innovative culture, while Sprint is formal and conservative, says Raul Katz of Adventis, a consultancy.

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Plus, notes Pascal Aguirre, senior vice president at Adventis consultants, Covad has expanded its business by a shrewd purchase earlier this year of GoBeam, a seller of cheap phone connections over the Net.

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