All we really have around here is AT&T too. They want $10k/mo for an ASE
@ 10G.
Comcast tried to sell us a 1G optical to our office. Everything of
theirs is aerial and is taken out frequently. We told the rep to have
the "no resale" taken out of the contract. They said no, but it will
never be enforced. We said GTFO.
On 6/18/2016 5:40 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
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]
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*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] <mailto:[email protected]>
www.pdmnet.com <http://www.pdmnet.com>
www.floridabroadband.com <http://www.floridabroadband.com>
