06-12 23:24:50
davoice

Re: Congrats.

said by johndoe303 :

I didn't understand how they could provide service to one gated neighborhood in South Florida.

Verizon can operate as a CLEC anywhere in the US they wish. And in states where they already have a CLEC license there's no real barrier to entry except planning/installation/maintenance.

All sorts of weird things like this happen in and around Dallas. Inside the beltline, Dallas is SBC/ATT. Outside the beltline, Dallas is exGTE/Verizon. But you find pockets of them sneaking into each other's territory to service a new housing development. One such example is the Austin Ranch development in Frisco. That's squarely in Verizon territory but SBC/ATT made the developers a deal and ran fiber and copper on a near-exclusive basis.

(Not completely exclusive since when that project was done, Texas still had laws that made SBC share the copper connections w/ Verizon... so Verizon is, in their home territory, buying copper loops from SBC, who is operating as a CLEC, not an ILEC, so that Verizon can provide services to end customers as the ILEC.)

Short version... It can and is done when the money smells right.

}Davoice