Hi Paul, FYI, in the fiber world, ATT is not the only option, and all of the fiber transport carriers do not go into / ATT Central offices. And yes, ATT is not competitive in 10g world.
If you give me an address, I can help you shop for transport to one of the Miami Data Centers. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 6:26:09 PM > Subject: CLEC or general Right of way question > 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] > www.pdmnet.com > www.floridabroadband.com
