Business Services Industry
The Dust Begins To Settle.(Industry Trend or Event)
Business Communications Review, October, 2000 by Krapf, Eric
The ILECs reign supreme and the data is for real. The future of carrier services is starting to take shape. Almost four years after the Telecom Act of 1996 went into effect, the carrier industry appears to be moving into the next stage of its post-deregulation evolution. Many predictions that were made once the Act was passed have either come true or seem likely to.
Unfortunately, those predictions came primarily from folks who were cynical about what the Act would accomplish. For example, as expected, the RBOCs have consolidated down to essentially two companies: Bell East--aka Verizon--and Bell West--i.e., SBC. Also as feared, the incumbent local exchange companies (ILECs) have maintained their stranglehold on the last-mile infrastructure, thereby...
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