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…
Long distance rates have nothing to do with distance. For instance, typically a call from Phoenix to Tucson, Arizona is more expensive than a call from Phoenix to Canada. There are four factors that determine the cost of long distance: Where the call originates Where the call terminates If it’s…
So many things can go wrong during a business telephone or internet service installation. The choice is yours, you can go through the process alone, relying on your carrier representative to work through all the possible issues, or engage a telecom consultant, who has worked hundreds of installations. Telecom consultants…
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,…
The local loop, or last mile, is the stretch of cable that runs from a customer’s premise to a carrier’s point of presence. It’s typically provided by the incumbent phone company that services a given area. The local phone company, Verizon, AT&T and Qwest (CenturyLink) for example, have agreements with…
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