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Thread Index [isp-clec] Re: Virtual NPA/NXX
When you are talking intermachine trunks between LECs and CLECs, things are totally different. If you are a CLEC back-hauling traffic across LATA bounderies, you will be charged for the ciruit off the FCC tariff. In fact, CLECs can be charged off the FCC tariff even if they are in the same LATA and just crossing LEC boundaries. An example would be here in Portland, Oregon where Qwest covers Portland and half of the surrounding suburbs and Verizon covers Beaverton and the other parts of the Portland suburbs. In the CLEC world, you can't really have a virtual NPA/NXX. You can have an SPOP (Single Point of Prescence) in the LATA, but you are required to get a distinct NPA-NXX for the rate center that you want to cover. That NPA-NXX will be able to accept all calls within the local calling area or EAS area if there is one, but you can't have one NPA-NXX that covers the whole LATA. SPOP allows you to route all your traffic to a single point in the LATA instead of having to collocate or have a HUB-MUX in each local calling area of the LATA. If you are trying to become a CLEC, I don't understand why you would want to go through Level 3 or Focal unless they have laid their own fiber there. Just because they say they have a network in a city, doesn't mean that they aren't leasing facilities from the LEC. Usually the LEC is the best one to go to in order to establish interoffice trunking. The only time it would be beneficial to go through another CLEC is if they can supply you with fiber that will carry you across LEC boundaries. In that instance, a CLEC that has fiber laid from point A to point Z could charge you for the fiber at an interconnection agreement price instead of off the tariff like the two LECs involved would. Mary Lou Carey BackUP Telecom Consulting, LLC www.backuptelecom.com marylou@... 503-750-3144 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Goldstein" <fgoldstein@...> To: <isp-clec@isp-clec.com> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: [isp-clec] Re: Virtual NPA/NXX > On Friday 30 May 2003 06:06 pm, Kevin Burke wrote: > > VZ has also pulled another Ace from their sleeve, if the call is > > transported over LATA borders, via ZNPA-NXX, they are pushing for FG A. > > Which if you remember was created to cover FX lines in the corridors, > > IE, NYC (132) to NJ (224). FG A is billable per MOU for both directions > > Oh yeah, that's a different question. LATA borders should not matter per se, > but state lines do. FCC rules say (have since 1984 or so) that the open end > of an interstate FX line is indeed FGA. Now some hold -- and I am aware of > literally hundreds of thousands of modems that take advantage of this -- that > the "ESP exemption" trumps this. But if the ILECs want to get nasty, they > might decide that the "ESP exemption" only applies to geographically-local > calls, which is what the pending Texas dispute is about, or perhaps > intrastate calls. In the latter case, only South Carolina treats the open > end of intrastate FX as FGA. The ILECs elsewhere are trying to make that, > and Maine's ban on VNXX, the controlling precedents. > > In one other case I was involved in (NH), the state got uppity about VNXX > going to an out-of-state switch, but the CLEC had a new instate switch at the > ready so it was not a problem. Of course a lot of "New York City" CLEC > switches are in NJ, but NY hasn't beefed. > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein at ionary dot com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > > ------------------------ANNOUNCEMENT--------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Recycle Your Hardware << > Clean out your closets and make some cash. > Reach thousands of ISP equipment buyers. > http://www.isp-equipment.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------ANNOUNCEMENT--------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Recycle Your Hardware << Clean out your closets and make some cash. Reach thousands of ISP equipment buyers. http://www.isp-equipment.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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