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From: smr
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:25
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On 5/29/2013 11:54 AM, Cydrome Leader wrote: > Any good CABS stories? That I can go into great detail about here? Not really. There is the local sorta-competitor who got uppity with the ILEC about CABS and ended up getting lawyered to the point that they had to basically (and very recently) sell, well... the entirety of their data business to pay the bill. You can probably suss out the rest from the trade rags. The fun thing about CABS is that NO ONE plays by the regulatory rules with them, not even AT&T, basically because it's technically impossible at this point. So it's a bunch of gentlemen's agreements. But once in a while a smaller firm tries to go off the reservation about it and just gets horse-whipped for their efforts. > The closest I ever got to billing was touching some v.35 cable hanging off > a switch that sent billing data to windows NT machine that FTPed data off > to a mainframe. As laughable as that sounds, it was probably pretty damn > high tech at the time. I'd like to say it's gotten much better since then but I can't. It's gotten very slightly better. Still have some shitheaded solutions like that out in certain switching CO's today (thankfully not in the IL market). -- smr
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Subject: Re: Porting, Google Voice, bandwidth.com
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