[Discuss] CLECs

[Seth Gordon]

IIRC, certain policy wonks claimed that AT&T eventually decided that being
broken up by the Justice Department was not such a bad idea, because as
non-monopolies the Baby Bells had more freedom of action than their mother.

(And since deregulation, the Bell System seems to be reconstituting itself.
SNET and four of the seven original Baby Bells—Ameritech, BellSouth,
Pacific Telesis, and Southwestern Bell—are now incorporated into AT&T, and
the other two—NYNEX and Bell Atlantic—are now Verizon.)


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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