Becoming a CLEC? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 2, 2004 @03:30AM from the dial-up-ISPs-gone-DSL dept.

eric76 asks: "It finally happened. DSL has come to the town where I work in Texas. While most would see that as a plus, the problem is that I work for a small ISP offering dialup and fixed wireless. The $26.95 / month DSL could drive us out of business. So I'm looking at what it takes to become a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier). That is, we'd become a local telephone company purchasing telephone service, particularly DSL, at wholesale from the ILEC (SBC) and reselling it at retail prices. Has anyone else gone through this? What did it cost? How long did it take? Is there a minimum size to make it worthwhile?"

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Re:Don't Play Their Game - Make a New One! by itwerx · 2004-06-02 09:06 · Score: 2, Funny

This is kinda sneaky but you could pull a Microsoft and offer free wireless to everybody until the DSL competition dies out. :)
'Course you'd have to have the bandwidth and the financial cojones to stick it out but it might still be less than $500k...