If I am not mistaken, WISPA has a couple of Vendor Members who already sell a turnkey solution to this, Ipiphony and NetSapiens both sell complete switch solutions to provide full-blown CLEC level services via VoIP I believe. It may be that I am not understanding what you are proposing though. Any help along these lines is much appreciated. I am certainly no telco specialist so don't let me stop the ideas from coming. John Scrivner
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Fred R. Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com>wrote: > The current FCC rules per November's CAF order allow ILECs to be > subsidized to provide "broadband" unless there is an "unsubsidized > competitor" who provides both voice and data service. Jack Unger has > written an excellent petition to the FCC to change that to allow it > to be "unsubsidized competition", wherein the data provider needn't > be the voice provider. But there's no guarantee that the FCC > (currently down to three seated Commissioners) will take such action. > > A WISP can provide the needed voice service via VoIP. It need not be > a certificated CLEC. However, to get the VoIP service and local > numbers, it still needs a CLEC with a connection to (at minimum) the > tandem switch serving its area. In some rural areas, this might not > be available. So the WISP might need to create a CLEC, or at least > get one to serve its area. > > While the traditional approach to starting a CLEC requires a > "switch", that rather costly item, which a lot of ISPs don't want to > have to manage, can be finessed by using a remote gateway. At least > one CLEC I'm working with offers a remote "rent a call agent" > service, where there Class 4/5 call agent, which is equipped with > Signaling System 7 (a big expense), can serve gateways anywhere, > passing signaling (H.248) across the Internet or, ideally, a VPN. So > the rural CLEC just has a media gateway and SBC, and orders trunks > into the local central office. The VoIP side of the gateway then > feeds the subscribers. > > I'm trying to assess whether it's worth anyone's pursuing to set this > up as an offering for WISPs. Does anyone see a market for this type > of service? Would it help anyone meet the "unsubsidized competitor" > requirement? Thanks... > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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