Why would a company want to be both an ILEC and CLEC in the same area?
From: VoiceOps On Behalf Of Mike Johnston
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 3:16 PM
To: VoiceOps
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Carriers Keeping Acquired Defunct Company Names
I see situations up here in Minnesota where it appears
To add to Brooks’ clarification, back in 2010-2011, O1 Communications sold the
entirety of their Small to Medium Enterprise portion (including customers,
leased lines, much of the networking infrastructure, the data center at 1515K
Street, and other various assets) to TelePacific. O1 retained th
I see situations up here in Minnesota where it appears that CenturyLink
is essentially CLECing themselves. An simple example would be Warroad, MN.
https://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-by-ratecenter-state?ratecenter=WARROAD&state=MN
CENTURYTEL OF MINNESOTA, INC. (CenturyLink, Inc) O
My understanding is that this is all about the administrative friction of
transfers and re-registrations.
Once you’re registered with the FCC, state Public Utilities Commissions,
local authorities for access to right of way and pole access, name changes
and transfers can be complex. Then there are
Qwest was on the ball back in the day and got one of the few single letter
domain names. Centurylink now controls q.com and qwest was putting customer
email addresses on that domain. I don't know if Centurylink is still using that
domain for customers anymore.
Jay
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