BrianDamage
We Are The Hounds From Hell
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| reply to boogie74
Re: This is not new
Like I said in my other posts, there is nothing anywhere in the verbage that prohibits an ILEC from offering DSL to a customer who receives local service from an alternate carrier.
I can understand the switching issues and unbundling-however, why couldn't an ILEC offer non line-shared DSL? They could!
My point has not been about lineshared DSL per se-I pointed out that in my experience less than 4% of DSL services are lineshared, although that number may have risen some since I last checked.
However, it is a certainty that over 90% of DSL services in place are separate line DSL, regardless of flavor.
The ILECs use the argument that they can't supply DSL unless they also provide local service as a form of blackmail, to sway people back to them from competitors.
I have seen no evidence to the contrary, regardless of what articles of 271 you guys post. I have read them all already.
While ILECs are not prohibited from offering unbundled loops when a customer has POTS from a CLEC, the cost involved (billing as well as infrastructure-wise) makes it unprofitable to offer these services to consumers.
Again, you acknowledge one of my points-it's not illegal or prohibited.
Not profitable? Please. The CLECs deliver DSL in just this manner. The fact is, the ILECs are satisfied with the money they will make on DSL unless they can package it with their local service, as well as whatever other services they wish to push on a customer who otherwise may not want to partake of their other services.
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