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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (30645)	1/15/1998 8:51:00 PM
From: Steve Morytko	Respond to of 61433

CLEC = Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Competitors for your phone company - ISP's or the likes of GTE and others.

To: Jan Crawley who wrote (30645)	1/15/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

What does CLECs stands for? Any relationship to "Customer-premises equipment"?CLEC - Competitive Local Exchange Carrier provides alternative local voice & data service to business & residence thereby competing again RBOCs like BellSouth. Some CLECs in the BellSouth region are: ACSI, AT&T, Brooks Fiber, Cybernet (Knology), DeltaCom, Hyperion, ICI, ICG, KMC Telecom, MCIMetro, MediaOne, MFS, MGC Communications, National Tel, Nextlink, Shell Offshore Services, Southeast Tel., Sprint Metro, Teleport, Time Warner and US LEC. CPE literally means Customer Premise Equipment in a loose sense.