VansHSI
join:2005-01-29
America
| Ongoing Problem
The root of this problem that Sprint has as well as T-Mobile and Alltell is that they buy local access from their competitors. The two companies around the country that Sprint buys most of their local access from are Verizon and ATT the two principal telcos and of course their two biggest competitors in the market place.
It's a bind to be in. It's not like ATT and Verizon are jumping through hoops to help get Sprint set up with the proper capacity in the Wimax network so they have a two year headstart on them in the high speed mobile internet space...
Sprint is trying to get more and more local access from Cable companies but they're just starting to get serious with their business offerings in local markets. |
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GoodDog
join:2000-07-03
Goshen, NY
 ·Vonage
 ·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Qwest all share each others last mile access all over the county to support all the T1's, DS3's, OC3's installed in their customers businesses. Why wouldn't they service each others wireless last mile needs in the same fashion?
This is more complicated than that. It takes a lot of time and money to get the local Telco to pull a DS3 or OC3 to a tower especially if that area does not have a fiber backbone. Money is not a resource available to Sprint ATM. |
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VansHSI
join:2005-01-29
America
1 edit | Sprint doesn't have local last mile anymore.
They spun off their local unit 2 years ago - Embarq. And i completely agree with you on the time it takes to get a telco to pull a DS3 or equivalent. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Doesn't Sprint have their own local phone service network (CLEC)? If they do, doesn't that mean they have fiber going into each central office? Its pretty easy to lease a T1 and plug it into your router/DSLAM/switch. |
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Darkflight
3G Stitch626
join:2001-03-03
Rowland Heights, CA
| Yes they have their own CLEC switches and sure its easy to hook fiber to the CO, but the issue is the 'Last mile' from the CO to the tower. Just like others have stated, the last mile providers aren't exactly going to rush to get that line upgraded from a single or multiple T1 to the level of service needed to make it operate efficiently. Its just like when you order DSL, it has range limitations, and once you're outside the DSL range, how often does Verizon or ATT 'rush' to extended their COs/ RTU/MTUs etc to go that extra 2000 feet to reach your house? Not to mention, not only are you talking about upgrading the connection, if there is any trenching involved then you have to add municipality restrictions and permit authorization to provide the needed 'oks' to upgrade the circuits in question... |
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switchtech
@sprintlink.net
| said by Darkflight  :Yes they have their own CLEC switches and sure its easy to hook fiber to the CO, but the issue is the 'Last mile' from the CO to the tower. Just like others have stated, the last mile providers aren't exactly going to rush to get that line upgraded from a single or multiple T1 to the level of service needed to make it operate efficiently. Its just like when you order DSL, it has range limitations, and once you're outside the DSL range, how often does Verizon or ATT 'rush' to extended their COs/ RTU/MTUs etc to go that extra 2000 feet to reach your house? Not to mention, not only are you talking about upgrading the connection, if there is any trenching involved then you have to add municipality restrictions and permit authorization to provide the needed 'oks' to upgrade the circuits in question... You are correct. All 50+ LD/wireline CO's (aka switch sites and not including the softswitches at these sites handling IP traffic) have fiber between each and everyone. Even most of the wireless sites now have fiber to a LD switch, on a MAN ring if anything, but it's the path from the wireless switch sites to the towers that's the problem. Heck, not till a few years ago did sprint wake up and cut over wireless sites to fiber access to a LD switch which pretty much brought wireless from the red to black in revenue. Those access charges are high and your always at the mercy of rising fee's and outages.  |
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