On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Bill Sandiford <[email protected]> wrote: > John: > > We are only moving ahead with additional CO collocates under very specific > circumstances. > > 1) We already have a sufficient volume of customers from that CO to justify > the expense. > 2) Backhaul can be obtained affordably > 3) Any other tangible benefits from that CO that could be of value to us as > a CLEC > > With regards to your point 2 at the bottom, we don't pay the ILEC to get out > of the CO in any of our CO collocates and in one case we build our own dark > fibre. In that case the "cable management fees" that you refer to were very > affordable.
Interesting. My guess is it's quite different in Toronto where there are already lots of other providers in a given CO which results in some options. Pretty much everywhere else in the country there is only one way in and out of the CO and that's via the ILEC. As for cable management, Bell charges us $450/mo to "manage" a single ethernet cable to the meetme room with none of their equipment on either end. That's not reasonable in my books... -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
