[46075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: ILEC Map
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Mar 12 16:51:50 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:49:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:40:15 -0500 (EST) deeann mikula <deeann@telerama.com> wrote:
> i was under the impresssion that ILECs (incumbent local exchange
> carriers) were pretty much only the RBOCs (regional bell operating
> companies)
nope.
there are numerous ILECs that were never "Regional Bell Operating
Companies". GTE is a large example. smaller examples include mom-and-pop
operations like Taconic Telephone in Columbia County, NY. there are many,
many other small examples.
that's why the ILEC counts on a per-state basis can be upwards of 40, as
in some of the examples others have given.
richard
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