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Why? The biggest ISPs in most markets aren't ILECs or CLECs right?
by rhino369 9y ago
Why? The biggest ISPs in most markets aren't ILECs or CLECs right?
- busterarm 9y agoUntrue. In any US market, for each class of service (copper, coax and now fiber) there's rarely ever more than one of each because the big ISPs do not compete with each other in such fashion. Muni service is a huge threat to them for this reason.
- rhino369 9y agoThe Coax providers (i.e., cable company) aren't ILECs though.
- busterarm 9y agoBut the coax providers still make deals between each other where they effectively follow the same rules leaving almost every market having one incumbent provider and one other competitor. There are tiny competitors that work in this space (cough RCN, Charter) but they are functionally irrelevant (except for a few big markets for Charter) and most of them have gone out of business and consolidated to larger providers anyway.