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    1. “ I think it's a general issue for the competitive industry. ”
    2. “ Right now, the FCC does not have rules to give competitors access to an ILEC's fiber networks, which are capable of providing broadband service and then they're allowing the ILECs to decommission the copper. ”

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  1. CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!

    FierceTelecom (Oct 15 2012) Access

    1. CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!

      Traditional ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers) may see their copper facilities as nothing more than an aging asset of the legacy voice-only service age, but for competitive telcos serving the business market, copper is still very much in fashion. Targeting the diverse and often-forgotten-about small to medium sized business (SMB) market, copper has become a sound method to deliver Ethernet over Copper (EoC) to customer sites where a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) can't prove a business case to deploy its own fiber or secure an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) with another dark fiber provider.

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    On 1/30/13 laurabicom said:
    "Good article, thanks for posting. We also have an article on CLEC: http://blog.bicomsystems.com/clec"

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