Sentence examples for competitive carriers from inspiring English sources
Of those, 17.5percentt were served by competitive carriers (not the dominant local telephone companies).
David Frankel, the company's founder, said, "The F.C.C. should say to everyone, 'If the only purpose of what you're doing is to rake in access charges, it's not O.K.'" A spokesman for the F.C.C. said it had resolved some concerns and "begun an inquiry into what further steps can be taken to prevent both incumbent and competitive carriers from gaming intercarrier compensation rules".
The idea, of course, was to let competitive carriers into the arena.
Still, Verizon executives say they are unaware that it has lost customers to competitive carriers since the strike.
For ISPs and competitive carriers, Piscataway, N.J.-based startup Aplion Networks is the ticket to flat-fee freedom.
Even buying the DSL connections from competitive carriers and the regional Bell operating companies would be extremely expensive.
"There's nothing in these concessions that will make United a more competitive carrier," said Kevin C. Murphy, an analyst at Morgan Stanley.
The Commission held hearings on the matter, see Competitive Carrier Notice of Inquiry and Proposed Rulemaking, 77 F. C. C. 2d 308 (1979), following which it issued a series of rules that have produced this litigation.
So even if Verizon customers decided to switch service to a competitive carrier, like RCN rcnc, they would have to wait until the strike was over.
"Since the strike, the process for ordering new services has slowed," says Nancy Bavec, director of communications at competitive carrier RCN, which provides local and long-distance retail and wholesale telecom services in some of Verizon's territory.
Beginning with its competitive carrier proceeding 36 years ago, the FCC has distinguished between carriers who have market power (dominant carriers) and those who don't (non-dominant carriers) and imposed price regulation only on dominant carriers with the power to control prices.
