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Posted by Anthony Bellanga on May 20, 2008, 12:08 am
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Steven Stone wrote:
> Work told me to switch my home office POTS from the local
> Frontier telco to a corporate managed AT&T PSTN service.
> A friend who used to work for Frontier tells me AT&T does
> not have a POP in the Middletown, NY central office. I made
> this known to work and their reply was my location "qualifies"
> for AT&T service so I should make the change. How can AT&T
> deliver when there is no local POP ?
I looked thru a couple of online sources for network information,
and it seems that AT&T (CLEC) does NOT (yet) have any CLEC
central office switch nor POP for the Middletown NY area.
AT&T (CLEC) doesn't have any 845-NXX code for Middletown NY,
nor does it appear that they have any thousands-block in any
845-NXX for Middletown NY.
But I wonder if it is possible for AT&T (CLEC) to become an
"administrative only" RESELLER CLEC for certain "select"
customers in Middletown NY? If this is so, then they wouldn't
need a central office switch, nor a POP, nor even a "default"
dedicated code or thousands block.
There are numerous "resellers" out there that have absolutely
NO network infrastructure of any kind, and I don't think that
they have any numbering or code resources neither. These are
those resellers who will "reconnect" customers who have had
payment problems with the incumbent LEC, and have been cut-off
at various times. Of course, there are restrictions on their
lines/service with the resellers. They still get dialtone from
the ILEC but are no longer considered customers of the ILEC,
but rather this (sometimes "shady") reseller.
So, on the other end of the economic spectrum, I wonder if
AT&T (CLEC) or other large telcos acting as a CLEC, are also
acting as "administrative resellers" for selected corporate
business customers, where that customer can deal with something
like AT&T for all of their locations nationwide, rather than
having to deal with independent telcos scattered around the
country ??
Anyhow, I do have a question to you...
Who is actually PAYING THE BILL for your home office POTS from
ILEC Frontier-Citizens in Middletown NY? Are you paying that
bill? or is your employer (work) paying that bill? If it's YOU,
then YOU could probably tell your work that YOU are the one to
choose who you want for your telco. But if your work is paying
the bill, then they could choose to change the dialone provider,
or at least the "billing telco" of that line to who they want.
-a/b
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