Jason Vanick wrote:
For outbound, of course, various intra-LATA recip. comp. and switched access fees apply.
Yup... tandem termination was always more pricey than DEOT termination... sometimes by as much as 3x.
Ah. That's intense. I don't think the spreads were ever quite so large in BellSouth-land. BellSouth was always thought to be the most CLEC-friendly ILEC. But it's also the south; hospitality aside, there's just a lot less traffic down here.
Yup. The FCC probably should have stayed out of things much more than they did. But then they wouldn't have had all those jobs for all the regulation people. Well, that and the RBOCS really still thought (think?) they were the only game in town. Interesting culture difference.
In the UK, I think Oftel was more involved than the FCC was here. I think the real difference is that the system was never so Byzantine to begin with, and so it didn't conserve all the obfuscation across the divide as in the US. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671