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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:12:51 -0400
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:55:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org> To: dave () farber net Subject: "decreasing revenues" (dave, you can redistribute this) there's more than a bit of hand-waving going on here. while the ilecs complain that it's too easy to be a clec and therefore get recip-comp, thereby reducing their revenue, what they don't mention is the *huge* amount of money they get paid for the T1s that are used to hand-off all those calls. firstly, most ISPs are not clecs, but in a competitive world, they certainly shop around for who can give them a handful of T1s with ISDN-PRI at the best cost. that almost always involves both the cost of the T1 entrance facility and then the PRI service isn't free, either. and the ilecs sell a *zillion* of those T1s because none of the clecs have enough inter-office trunking to carry the aggregate load. the other thing not mention are the scads of T1s and T3s being used for dedicated internet connectivity and acquired mostly from the ilecs. this is literally billions of revenue they would have never seen without the internet, so in the global sceme of things, recip-comp is pretty small potatoes. the real value in killing recip-comp is to further whack the clec revenues and hasten the obvious result. -mo resident crank Center for Chaotic Repeatability
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