Agreed. And facilities based CLEC even scarier. Regulatory / billing / PUC legals etc ugh
Sent from my iPhone 4S On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote: > Worst reason to become a CLEC: improved cost structure. Or, to be precise, > it is a counterfactual reason, because it does not result in improved cost > structure. > > This idea is driven by an incomplete understanding of what being a CLEC > entails, or, for the less critically thoughtful, the "free lunch" fallacy. > There is no free lunch. There is no such thing as an easy-peasy regulatory > reclassification that gets you the same stuff you were paying before, but > more cheaply. > > Becoming a CLEC is a totally different business model than the one you're in, > and it entails magnitudinally more technological and regulatory complexity. > It's really almost a different vertical. You should become a CLEC only if > you want to become a CLEC, not if you want to be an ITSP with a lower cost > basis, because you won't be. It is a very capital-intensive, non-trivial > endeavour with high barriers to entry for a good reason. There will be > people out there who will tell you that those barriers are low; they are on > the bridge of failing CLECs, treading water. > > -- > Alex Balashov - Principal > Evariste Systems LLC > 260 Peachtree Street NW > Suite 2200 > Atlanta, GA 30303 > Tel: +1-678-954-0670 > Fax: +1-404-961-1892 > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
