[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[J. Cary Howell]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:38 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> As for Speakeasy. I wouldn't be surprised if Bellsouth is not renewing
> 3rd party contracts and refusing to give service that would go beyond
> the 3rd party's current contract. Damn the FCC.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-260433A1.pdf

The NPR FCC 05-150, "FCC Eliminates Mandated Sharing Requirement on
Incumbents' Wireline Broadband Internet Access Services" should not
affect Speakeasy or any of the others that are offering DSL as a CLEC
(bundling the core components of DSLAM and network) and reselling them.

http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr080805.php

Even Speakeasy themselves issued a press release 3 days after the NPR to
state that it would not adversely affect their delivery of service.  Not
saying you're wrong, but if they said they can't offer the service and
have a press release on their site contradicting that -- I'm confused.

The part that I hate is that this NPR can effect (in the words of the
Commission, it's up to the incumbent to decide what they will offer to
non CLEC ISPs) ISPs that do not have CLEC status.


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