On 12/11/2013 02:27 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
Do you find people are still becoming CLECs?
It's hard for me to say. I don't get the impression folks are becoming CLECs anew much anymore for the purpose of ILEC interconnection and UNE resale, but CLEC status that affords other rights-of-way (e.g. WiMax, fiber providers) seems as popular as ever. For ITSPs, I think finding good existing CLEC partners is a more practical strategy than becoming a CLEC themselves, unless their market focus is really, really small and highly specialised in a particular area, and they have the large multi-site customers necessary to make it work. -- Alex [1] Notwithstanding the recent FCC ruling about how VoIP providers can own numbers directly--it remains to be seen how that will actually be implemented, and whether the regulatory burden will be similar to that of CLEC in practice. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave Suite 106 Decatur, GA 30030 United States Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com/