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Article #232Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: Roy
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:38
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:38
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On 3/19/2010 12:02 PM, John Higdon wrote: > In article > <_6idne3WvqASWj7WnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@posted.southvalleyinternet>, > Roy<aa4re@aa4re.ampr.org> wrote: > >> If you like cooperatives, start one. Anyone can become a CLEC and start >> digging up the streets. Nothing prevents this. >> >> Just don't use any tax dollars. > > I suggest, if you want some very interesting reading, that you check > into the lobbying efforts of ILECs to make sure that CLECs get the short > end of all regulatory sticks. For instance, reciprocal payments, a > policy designed by the RBOCs to financially burden upstart CLEC had the > policy blow up in their faces and found the money flowing in the reverse > direction. AT&T's answer? Just don't pay. AT&T is big enough that it > seems to be able to thumb its nose at everyone. > > Yes, "anyone can become a CLEC" but what happens after that might be > something you will want to investigate. > I was a CLEC so I am familiar with the landscape. We were going to do data only so things like reciprocal payments aren't applicable. There was little in the way as long as you didn't try to use the phone company's resources. As an example, renting pole space from PG&E was straight forward.
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