[Asterisk-biz] Large volume inbound US provider request

[Michael Welter]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:17 -0500, Matthew Simpson wrote:
>>
>>>There's a big difference between rural LECs and CLECs.  LOL. You're
>>>also confusing access charges with reciprocal compensation.
>>>
>>
>>read the next email for my explanation of access charges and reciprocol
>>compensation.  I brought up the rural lecs in response to the idiot that
>>claims that access charges dont exist anywhere (I also brought up long
>>distance providers to that same end).
> 
> Nice to see the name-calling begin. 
> 
> a) I did not say access charges don't exist. Read the email. I said recip
> is almost gone, and where it exists, it is in the range of 0.05c/minute.  
> (as in, 1/20th of a penny). 
> 
> b) Rural carriers operate by entirely different rules from the rest. You
> were looking for a CLEC to give you PRIs. By definition, rural carrier 
> *is* an ILEC. Please do not try to confuse issues.
> 
> c) You wanted a CLEC with recip - talk about clecs who still have recip.
> Don't bring up rural ILECs' access tariffs. 
> 
> d) Notwithstanding the above, since you made claims to contrary: Access
> tariff by definition is LD (anything going between rate centers) and is
> specified in the tariffs. Access tariff may be different for intralata /
> intrastate / interstate.  Reciprocal compensation is by definition local
> (intra-rate-center), is individually negotiated and specified in ICA.  
> Arguing otherwise is pointless.
> 
> 
As a CLEC i would have the authority to connect to a tandem switch in 
the PSTN.  Aside from that, are there any other advantages for an ITSP 
to file a CLEC tariff?