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 -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security