Level 3 Communications Blog
Aspiring to be the underdog in an unfair fight. For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telephone companies’ use of “demand lock-up” arrangements in the market for special access services. Using their dominance to maintain their dominance, these incumbents require their customers to, in order to get the incumbents’ best rates, commit [...]
We applaud the FCC for taking an initial step towards fixing the broken and non-competitive special access market by suspending further price flex petitions and by moving forward with mandatory data requests to gather additional information so that working rules can be established. The incumbent phone companies will cry foul respecting the suspension of granting [...]
For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telcos use of “demand lock up” arrangements in the market for special access services. The incumbent phone companies use and maintain their dominance in the special access market to demand that their customers commit to buy as much as 90 percent or more of their [...]
With 2012 quickly approaching, I figured I’d dust-off the old crystal ball and make a few predictions regarding the world of voice telephony over the coming year. 1. Mayan long-count calendar will be re-set to 2018 To the dismay of the hoards who had anticipated the final day next year (as preliminarily predicted by the Maya), [...]
