[ AOL news ]
...AOL's DSL services will be provided by GTE Internetworking, which will be the go-between for AOL and the regional phone companies providing the DSL service, including Bell Atlantic and GTE .....
...The initial field trials will take place in Birmingham, Alabama; Phoenix, Arizona; California's San Francisco Bay Area; the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington; and Redmond, Washington. Because regional telephone providers use different DSL equipment and multiple standards in different cities, AOL will be working with a number of providers, the company said.
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??GTE Internetworking?? Why is the GTE-ILEC doing the job of the GTE-CLEC division? I was under the impression the CLEC would work the colocation of equipment issues, not the ILEC. Is AOL going to work with each RBOC or is GTE? If it's GTE, where is the GTE-CLEC division with their 16 additional sites in 1998? Does the GTE-Internetworking group report to the CLEC division?
Let me highlight the phrase...
GTE Internetworking, which will be the go-between for AOL and the regional phone companies providing the DSL service, including Bell Atlantic and GTE.
That sounds like the GTE-CLEC working colocation with Bell Atlantic and GTE-ILEC. GTE's ADSL strategy "ILEC/CLEC" is going to depend on the FCC... until later. |
