The advantage to VoIP is cost, assuming you don't need to order dial tone to anyone through the LEC. $375 per state CLEC OCN adds up, versus one nationwide IPES OCN, and you're already paying $950 per LATA for POI CLLI either way. Regards, *Calvin Ellison* Voice Operations Engineer calvin.ellison at voxox.com +1 (213) 285-0555 ----------------------------------------------- *voxox.com <http://www.voxox.com/> * 5825 Oberlin Drive, Suite 5 San Diego, CA 92121 [image: Voxox] On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
Running a CLEC of one's own with a purely SIGTRAN link through someone else's physical POI has been possible for a long time, and many large CLECs provide this service to small CLECs, particularly ones which exist for some narrow purpose like providing the back side of a specific VoIP product.
I guess the difference is now you can do this without actually obtaining CLEC status as such?
The other steps are a pain (mainly ICA), but not having to petition the state PUC certainly cuts some of the work out. I guess.
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