Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Fri Dec 17 15:36:31 UTC 2010


On 12/17/2010 2:51 AM, Steve Schultze wrote:
> Negotiating
> these terms with each municipality was the price that companies had to
> pay for monopoly access to local markets.

I've seen it apply to CLEC access into a market as well; running as a 
true CLEC and not just borrowing LEC lines.

Deals can include anything, including profit sharing, free service to 
the municipality, etc (and can be very bad if your negotiator is poor).


Jack




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