Chapter 4. Network Service Providers and Local Competition
In this chapter...
Local Competition
Carriers
Bandwidth Trading: The Commoditization of Bandwidth
Local Service Providers
Summary
The telecommunications industry is made up of hundreds of carriers who sell a mix of leading edge data services as well as mundane items such as voice long distance and white and yellow page directories. Often the same companies sell all of these products.
It used to be possible to neatly classify carriers into the following categories:
Interexchange long distance carrier
Local telephone company
Reseller
Cable TV provider
Data communications provider
Independent local telephone company
This is no longer possible. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the telecommunications ...
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