Actually you do have access to the remote terminals as a CLEC. The problem is you don't get to just use the ILEC's DSLAMs. Access to the remote means that you get to go spend the money on all the equipment and backhaul for something like 10-20 customers per remote. The ILEC is able to do this because they have to have equipment and backhaul there for voice calls anyway.
Unfortunately the real issue is that residential Internet doesn't make money. For our company (A CLEC providing xDSL,VoIP and Data services) it is just a way to advertise. People that like our residental service, may later buy a business circuit with a Hosted VoIP PBX on it. (and we do provide full QoS for our voice products. We don't harm or throttle others providers voice services on our network, but they do have to contend with the web and fileshaing traffic)
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Actually you do have access to the remote terminals as a CLEC. The problem is you don't get to just use the ILEC's DSLAMs. Access to the remote means that you get to go spend the money on all the equipment and backhaul for something like 10-20 customers per remote. The ILEC is able to do this because they have to have equipment and backhaul there for voice calls anyway.
Unfortunately the real issue is that residential Internet doesn't make money. For our company (A CLEC providing xDSL,VoIP and Data services) it is just a way to advertise. People that like our residental service, may later buy a business circuit with a Hosted VoIP PBX on it. (and we do provide full QoS for our voice products. We don't harm or throttle others providers voice services on our network, but they do have to contend with the web and fileshaing traffic)