Philip, While I am not a Lawyer and therefore cannot offer a legal opinion, you have ask a legal question not a technical one. You are in the State of CA unless there is another Burbank in the country. You would have to go to your Public Service Commission or PUC or whatever they call it in CA to find out all of the regs on becoming a CLEC. If you can be a data CLEC without being a Voice CLEC then you may get away without having to offer E911 and other services. The question is can you be a "reseller" of the service without full CLEC status. In GA and other States that I am familair with you need a Carrier number that costs about 20k to register. Go talk to a telecom lawyer in CA. John (ISDN) Lee (I Still Do not kNow) Philip Lavine wrote:

I have decided to mux down a DS3 into T1's so that my vendors and customers have redundant access to my site. Here is the situation: Right now my customers/vendors ride the ILEC (I am in Burbank)into my building. I have another carrier with an OC3 running into my building so I wanted to take a DS3 off of that and then MUX that down to T1's so I can offer LEC diversity (and possibly upstream diversity). The alternate carrier has agreed to my plan but I am not sure if there is any regulations or standards that I must adhere to. Also how do I get my customers/vendors to choose me as the LEC when they order the redundant circuit? How do I create a LOA/CFA?

Thanks,

Philip

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