[Asterisk-Users] Re: Is this good or bad

[James Taylor]

Unbundling is out.
"Commercially Negotiated Agreements" are replacing UNE's.
So, the great unbundling discount is gone.

I'm a CMRS (wireless), regulated by FCC.
I love telling the state PUC that they lack jurisdiction in certian  
matters.
Incumbant LECS "have" to do certian things because they had the monopoly  
for so long.  It's the price they pay (includeing francise fees to cities.)

Regs will change again.  I've been doing this since 1991.  It is always  
changing.  You just have to read, move and try to say ahead of the next  
ruling.
James Taylor
MetroTel

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:26:02 -0500, Thomas Eugene Hayden  
<haydenth at msu.edu> wrote:

> After speaking with an employee at the Michigan Public Sevice  
> Commission, I'm under the impression that initially this is a good  
> thing, but long term a very bad thing.  The FCC strictly regulates ILECs  
> and CLECs, and requires ILECs to unbundle their lines and let CLECs  
> lease them at a reasonable rate. As far as I know, this only applies to  
> analog telephony.  Therefore, longterm, the big telcos such as SBC,  
> Quest, Bell South, and Verizon are going to start shifting their lines  
> to pure IP - thus they don't have to unbundle any network elements for  
> the CLECs.  This will basically drive any of the CLECs who don't have an  
> infastructure in place out of business because the ILEC will have zero  
> requirements to share any network elements. Eventually, companies like  
> Vonage are going to get shafted because SBC (or whomever) can refuse to  
> terminate traffic from them because they will only be handling IP  
> traffic and not analog voice.  The FCC won't be able to do anything and  
> neither will any state regulatory bodies because both have pledged to  
> have zero regulation in IP traffic. I'm not an attorney, just a college  
> student studying telecom, so take my opinion for what it's worth...  --
> tom james writes:
>> The FCC is now the governing body for Internet based telephony in the  
>> U.S. Vonage considers this a win, but now they are officially  
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