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To: Enam Luf who wrote (8175)	8/24/2000 1:06:05 PM
From: lml	Respond to of 12823

Enam: Simply put, unbundling the local loop means opening up ACCESS to customers over the telco platform that in the past has been monopolized by the local phone companies, the ILECs. Under the Telecom Act of '96, and the checklist reqt's imposed upon the RBOCs before they could receive approval to enter long distance, the FCC required them to "unbundle" the local loop so that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) would have equal ACCESS to those customers. Well, equal ACCESS requires equal opportunity and cost structure to provision a particular customer line. This requires access to space at the CO, and under Pronto, at the RT, where the twisted pair running from the customer premises ends before connecting to any number switches or multiplexers that are not solely the incumbent's equipment. The flipping of Pronto switches has been held up because the CLECs have raised concerns that by pushing equipment from the CO out to the RT whether they would have EQUAL ACCESS to customers served by the RT, as that would be the point where the DSL over copper would be concentrated by DSLAMs & transmitted back to the CO to ATM ports over OC-3s. As you can see, unless the CLECs have the ability to install their own equipment at the RT, EQUAL ACCESS to those subscribers served out of an RT would no longer exist. This newswire describes the testing that will ensure CLECs equal ACCESS to those customer, however, the testing here is not necessarily limited to technology, but also administrative, an area that has been a sore point with the CLECs even at the CO.