Throwing names and actually looking and contacting people at those carriers
are two different things 😉
On Jun 18, 2016 8:11 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Didn't see my post?  :-p
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> *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]>
> *To: *[email protected]
> *Sent: *Saturday, June 18, 2016 8:05:16 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] CLEC or general Right of way question
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> Paul,
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> Shoot me an address off list and I'll see if I can help find you
> something. No charge, just want to see if I can help.
> On Jun 18, 2016 5:26 PM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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)
>>
>>
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>> 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.
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>>
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>> 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?
>>
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>>
>> Paul
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>> Paul McCall, President
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>> PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc.
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>> 658 Old Dixie Highway
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>> Vero Beach, FL 32962
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>> 772-564-6800
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>> [email protected]
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>> www.pdmnet.com
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>> www.floridabroadband.com
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