[Discuss] CLECs

[Richard Pieri]

Seth Gordon wrote:
> The Right Way to run the telecom system, IMHO, would be to “delaminate” it
> (h/t David Weinberger). Have the ILECs be responsible for maintaining the
> network infrastructure that shuttles bits from place to place, and let them
> rent out that bandwidth to service providers, but forbid them from actually
> providing any of those services themselves.

That's backwards. The ILECs are service providers, not bit pushers. The
infrastructure exists to support their services, not the other way
around. If you strip away the ILECs' ability to be service providers
then you strip away their primary function. I don't see any viable way
of making this idea work short of reinstating the Bell System.

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Rich P.