[Asterisk-biz] Large volume inbound US provider request

[Max Clark]

Well being a CLEC you also get the privilege of filing a lot of 
paperwork, taxes, and everything else that comes with the government.

Seriously though, as a CLEC you can perform street construction - so if 
you want to lay your own fiber you can (provided you get a permit, right 
of way, etc...).

Michael Welter wrote:
> 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?
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Biz mailing list
> Asterisk-Biz at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
>