It's easy to drop your guard when you're dealing with a business phone and internet service provider, like AT&T, Verizon or CenturyLink, but doing so could cost you. Here are four telecom red flags; if they come up, beware. Cheap Pricing Listed on Your Bill – If you look at…
Last week we listed the advantages an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (the Phone Company) has over its competitors. This week we’re covering the advantages the Competitive Local Exchange Carriers have over the incumbents. Competitor Advantages: The incumbent is almost always more expensive: Incumbents charge more because they have to and…
In every area of the country there is an incumbent phone company that owns the local phone network. In larger cities, smaller phone companies, called Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) lease part of the incumbent’s network to deliver phone and internet services to local businesses. So, in every major city…
Frequently, when talking to a client for the first time, they express the opinion that the phone company is their only option for cheap telecom internet services. Basically, they believe that any other telecom company approaching them is only going to add to the cost of their services. In fact,…
A vendor will only put its best foot forward if it believes it has a reasonable shot to win your business. Unless your current voice and data provider believes there is legit chance to lose your business, it won’t offer much. This is the eighth installment of CarrierBid’s eleven part…
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 required the incumbent phone companies (Local Exchange Carriers), like CenturyLink, AT&T and Verizon, to lease their local loops and space in their wire centres to their competition, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, or CLECs, like TW Telecom, Integra or XO Communications. Before 1996, Integrated T1’s did…
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