Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

[Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred () gwi net>]

In this particular post, your making stuff up.   There are still
"residential focused" CLECs and ordering Unbundled Network Elements(UNEs)
is not more difficult than in the past.   The rules haven't changed.

What is certainly true is that many CLECs have found that it is more
lucrative to sell to businesses, but I don't think there is a correlation
with residential getting more difficult.   We used to be 75%/25%
residential/business and are now 45%/55% business, but that reflects the
*rapid* growth of the business market.

regards,
Fletcher

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I'm assuming from your domain that you're in Canada where yes dry pairs are
> still generally available.  I apologize for not making it clear that my
> comment was specifically about the US where dry pairs are nearly impossible
> to order today and the CLEC market has almost entirely abandoned the
> residential space. In fact, the only state in the US that I still see any
> residentially focused CLECs is Texas which tells me there is something
> about the regulations in that state that makes it more feasible.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca> wrote:
>
> > On 2013-02-03, at 14:39, Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dry pairs are impossible to order these days for a reason.
> >
> > Dry pairs are trivial to order round these parts. Generalisations are
> > always wrong, no doubt including this one.
> >
> >
> > Joe (putting the N back in NANOG)
>
>
>
>
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