Verizon is the ILEC (Incumbent local exchange carrier) for this area and I think that there can only be one ILEC. The other companies are the CLECs (Competitive local exchange carrier). Personally I do not know about any CLECs for "local" phone service in this area but I have never sought them out ether. Nationwide there have been a few start-up CLECs for local service after the deregulation of the telecommunications industry but only a few of them survived (same with the dsl providers). They all faced the same problem of needing to use the ILEC's premises and wires. Although the deregulation process required the ILECs to allow this it didn't stop them from making it difficult for the new CLECs often times pushing court cases for such a time that the start-up went out of business before it could actually start up. I guess the big boys don't like the competition!
-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Charles R. Anderson Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:25 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] (off topic) high speed internet access in shrewsbury --cut--
madcateast> > I am thinking of switching my local phone line provider, perhaps another madcateast> > company may provide DSL on my telephone line? Am I correct? Or if madcateast> > verizon cannot do it, none of them can do it?
Can you do this? Most locations only have one ILEC (Verizon in our case) which owns all the copper loops.
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