Re: BellSouth Monopoly Case Moves Forward

[Fred Goldstein <fgoldstein@...]

At 07:15 PM 8/5/2002 -0500, Rod Beck wrote:
>Fred,
>
>I am not sure you reading the statistics correctly. Take the more recent 
>FCC local competition report:
>
>Direct Quote: "CLECs reported providing about 22% of their switched 
>access lines by reselling the services of other carriers and another 47% 
>by unbundled network loops, which includes the UNE-P platform" The other 
>31% rides local loops provided by the CLECs"
>
>To claim that you must own the facility end-to-end to be competitive is 
>not at all convincing. If I lease UNE loops and provide my own 
>switching, I am a competitive carriers. Much of the 47% falls in the 
>smart build category and is not UNE-P.

I agree. Smart build is competitive.  And I don't have the actual FCC
numbers in front of me, so I may have been off by a bit.  Maybe it was 3%
UNE-L (smart build) and 2% fully on CLEC transmission (often cable).  But I
recall that they spun the numbers rather favorably, so the share they were
reporting was designed to make it sound much more competitive than it was.
Maybe tomorrow I can look at the "real" numbers.

>Also remember that the CLECs command a much greater precentage of 
>special access and private lines.

Notable because that (CAP activity) is under federal jurisdiction, and thus
predates the Telecom Act.

>A more balanced statistic is total CLEC industry revenue, which is 
>probably over $30 billion.
>
>- R.