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Unconventional wisdom about local competition: Not all CLECs are dead, and it may be possible to get ILECs to wheel and deal on prices. Local competition seems like it's sleeping, not dead.
Business Communications Review, February, 2002 by Krapf, Eric
If you never believed the competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) were going to topple the incumbent LECs (ILECs), you probably don't believe the new conventional wisdom that the CLECs are dead. But while plenty of CLECs have bitten the dust, plenty remain, and from the perspective of enterprise customers, the goal of having alternative local providers is as strong as ever.
The question facing the industry is how to deliver? CLECs: Only The Wise Survive First, the dire fate of the CLECs may have been overstated. The FCC weighed in on this question in mid-2001, when it released numbers from year-end 2000 demonstrating, the Commission claimed, that competition was growing and reasonably healthy. Among the figures cited: * CLECs served...
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