CLEC Options Mount Up In Boston
August 3, 1998
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., Newsbytes via
NewsEdge Corporation : Competitive local-exchange
carriers (CLECs) are converging onthe Boston area.
Allegiance Telecom Inc. [NASDAQ:ALGX], a
Dallas-based CLEC that currently serves Atlanta, Dallas,
and New York, has gained approval from Massachusetts
regulators to enter the Boston market, while NorthPoint
Communications, Inc., of San Francisco, said it has
signed up five partners to bring its digital subscriber line
(DSL) services to Beantown.
Allegiance plans to launch local phone service in Boston
and the surrounding suburbs by the end of 1998,
company spokeswoman Claire Dunnett told Newsbytes.
The company has also said it plans to enter Chicago,
Fort Worth, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and northern
New Jersey by the end of the year. Allegiance said it will
provide a full package of telecommunications services,
including local, long-distance, and international calling
as well as high-speed data transmission and Internet
services.
NorthPoint, which already delivers symmetric DSL
services in the San Francisco Bay area, Silicon Valley,
and greater Los Angeles, said its services will be
available in the Boston area through Epoch Internet of
Irvine, Calif., Flashcom, Inc., of Westminster, Calif., iCi,
Inc., of Mansfield, Mass., Shore.Net of Lynn, Mass., and
Verio, Inc., of Boston. NorthPoint said it hopes to sign
up additional network service providers in the next few
months.
NorthPoint said it will be offering its DSL services in
Boston proper and in cities in surrounding Middlesex,
Suffolk, and Norfolk counties. The company is planning
to reach seven to 10 markets nationwide by the end of
the year, a spokeswoman told Newsbytes. NorthPoint is
a wholesaler and markets its DSL service through
partners in all areas, she said.
The symmetric DSL technology is optimized for business
communications and provides the same data rates for
both upstream and downstream transmission, thus
supporting "push" and "pull" applications, NorthPoint
officials said.
Reported By Newsbytes News Network:
newsbytes.com
(19980731/Press Contact: Claire Dunnett, Allegiance
Telecom, 708-836-5208; Ann Zeichner, NorthPoint
Communications, 415-403-4003 /WIRES TELECOM/)
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