 MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
kudos:3 | Sprint gets last mile access, cable gets PSTN access. The whole point of these sorts of deals are so the companies involved can scratch each others backs while avoiding having to use the local incumbant phone companies' pipes.
Sprint often needs last mile lines to service it's cell tower locations... usually it gets them from the local bells. Now it can turn to local cable fiber runs...
Local cable needs backhaul to get from local headends to peering points and PSTN access, often the local bells are the place they get them from. Now they can use Sprint...
Skip AT&T and Verizon... the biggest competitors and often the biggest hold up when getting more bandwidth... for both Sprint and cable.
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