kauiman3
join:2002-08-16
Redondo Beach, CA | CLEC local access v's DSL After looking up the regulations this is a grey area. ILEC's tell their employees that it is against FCC regulations. However after talking with 2 ILEC's legal council they basically agree that this is really their convenient interpretation of the law. They write internal emails to encourage the employees to interpret it this way, for obvious reasons. Even their own counsel knows its not really a black and white FCC regulation.
ATT and MCI is pushing the matter, which is good, however ATT nor MCI are not saints either. If a customer wants ATT/MCI local but DSL say from another provider say DSL Extreme, ATT/MCI will give you the same story, you must order DSL from ATT/MCI and no one else! Like others I side with the ILEC's until ATT/MCI plays fair
IMHO If open access is to work, the FCC should allow the Consumer any combo they want. This way the market settles the score and not the government.
In every scenario the ILEC is getting $$ for that leased line. Somewhere around $8 to $12. The ILEC's need to realize that fighting for a monopoly is only a waste of money at this point. With Cable VOIP (Docsys2) and PowerLine + Wireless coming on in the next 2 yrs they should be focused on developing great products and building a customer base the old fashion way. You earn it.... |
