Cable Operators Get the Go-Ahead to Buy Local Exchange Competitors
IT Connection Blog by Brian WashburnSummary Bullets: · FCC forbearance paves the way for cable providers to acquire CLECs operating in the same footprint. For business services, cable providers could blanket entire markets instead of dealing with patchworks of franchise territories. · The survival tactics honed by CLECs in the last 15 years of competition could be a big marketing, sales and customer service/support shot in the arm for cable operators' business services practices. As of September 2012, the FCC will no longer prevent cable companies and competitive local exchange