jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
| reply to Richard B
Re: Dude..
When a customer orders DSL from Earthlink, that DSL circuit (which Earthlink can't provide itself) can be provisioned by either an ILEC (like Verizon), or CLEC (like Covad) - depending on who can offer service at that address. Covad has to have DSLAM equipment co-located at the Verizon POP serving that address before its serevice can be selected. So sure, in many cases Verizon will get the order to provide the DSL circuit, but still it has to route the packets onto Earthlink's network (Not Verizon's). It is just contracted to carry the packets over the "last mile". In cases where both the ILEC and CLEC can provide DSL service to the address, its a toss-up which provider gets the DSL order from Earthlink. In some cases the Customer (if smart enough) can request one or the other and Earthlink may honor the request.
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