In 2002, I had an ex CLEC consultant working for me who's idea of fun was to digest FCC tariff's. In doing so, he actually was able to "force" Bellsouth (later absorbed as ATT) to run fiber to our office. Over 2 miles of fiber was run "just for us" for the whopping cost of $ 2500. NTT verio then provided us BW over that fiber for 13 years, and we since have moved on. Like most everyone, the loop cost for anything we need to do is very expensive (ATT monopoly in this area). We have 2 fiber connections (ATT and HE) over the same ATT fiber path (not ideal - but not been a problem for 14 years)
We are currently shopping BW and loop for the future, so the naturally the thought is the next piece of BW should be on a 10 GBit loop. ATT wants a ton for that piece, and either No Bids or crazy high bids all the providers we are talking to for our next BW. So, the question is this. Is it probable that there is a way to use the ATT path (underground and pretty big at least in our area) to run our own Fiber from here to the C/O. Then, our prospective carriers can just hand off to us in the ATT C/O. This Right of Way that ATT uses... Can someone else use the large conduit in the ground? Does it take being a CLEC? Does that force ATT to allow that or lease that conduit for a reasonable amount? Paul Paul McCall, President PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com> www.floridabroadband.com<http://www.floridabroadband.com>
