Isn't there anything crafty you can do like order 10 POTS to the location. Wait 30 days and port the numbers to cell phones. ILEC no longer controls the numbers. Find a CLEC in the state who has a switch and port the numbers to them. They provide the SIP trunk. Order a quality internet connection to the site in question and bring up the SIP trunk with a CLEC. You have 10 numbers to work with. Or maybe I am being a bit naive here. matt On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Alex Balashov wrote:
On 08/20/2012 10:03 PM, Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE wrote:
In my experience, they do act like yokels and do whatever they can to forestall CLECs. This doesn't surprise me at all. At least in FL, they will refuse to meet you at the tandem even though they are interconnected there, and will require local interconnection trunks in the rural town you want to serve. They know that most of us don't have facilities there, and this is a very effective barrier to entry. We took it all the way to the PSC and lost in one rural Florida town.
So good luck. Unless you've got some sort of facilities in place in this little town, this is probably gonna hurt.
I thought they run their own tandems and expect you to pick up the traffic there? Though, they might have more exacting DEOT requirements for origination than the RBOCs do.
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