----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE" <m...@astrocompanies.com>
> I think you may have missed the main point of the ILEC proposals to > “modernize”. > They still propose, post-“modernization”, to force CLECs to interconnect with > TDM facilities and SS7 at each tandem as they have to today. That’s a huge > revenue stream and they’re not going to willingly give that up. Their > “modernization” proposal is simply “We want to get rid of all UNEs” in > disguise. It’s totally anti-competitive. AT&T simply wants to take that wire > that’s in the ground today that must be made available for UNEs and divest > that > wire to one of its subsidiaries which is not an ILEC. They will use that > existing copper to provide both legacy and next-gen services but since it is > no > longer owned by the ILEC it’s no longer subject to being used for UNEs by > CLECs. Viola! Network modernized! The old monopoly is new again and they > didn’t even have to invest in new infrastructure. Roughly akin to what they were trying to do after Sandy in NY, shifting customers from regulated copper to unreg subsidiary (read: FiOS) fiber, IIRC. Luckily, a statistically significant number of customers told them to fold it until it was all sharp corners, and shove it SO FAR UP their... er, what now? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops