They just resell a national provider. Rarely do these national providers
cover areas where broadband is not already available.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 2/17/2012 7:53 AM, John Scrivner wrote:
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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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...
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Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
<http://ionary.com>
ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
+1 617 795 2701 <tel:%2B1%20617%20795%202701>
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