Comment Response: Just how prevalent is Ma Bell?
August 13, 2008
The following comment was posted on the 8×8, Inc., Yahoo! Message Board late last evening citing one of my previous posts:
“90% of business buildings are still served by one providers infrastructure, that being Ma Bell. ”
http://www.telecomstraightshooter.com/20…
Still not sure I believe it. Comcast has spent plenty of money marketing to enterprise customers in my area. They must have sufficient cable in the right commercial zones.
Still, this is what Martin (CEO of 8×8, Inc.) has been telling stockholders, believe it or don’t.
See the comment posted on the 8×8, Inc., Yahoo! Message Board
My response: I believe in data … real data. The FCC collects data on competition by an honor system. The Federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) collected data for a report on competition by actually pulling circuit type data from 16 markets through a proprietary, highly confidential database that Telecordia keeps. This database identifies who has what circuits and where.
The GAO report was highly critical of how the FCC measures competition, as they released their findings on true, real, physical facility based competition. This November 2006 report stated that 94% of business buildings in the United States have only one true, real, physical facility based provider … Ma Bell. The FCC would identify 5-7 competitors in a building, however, all riding over the same Ma Bell infrastructure including Ma Bell.
The report may be found at the following location: www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-80
Written by Dave Rusin - Telecom Executive
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Telecordia, the FCC and the GAO do not count MSO cable connections into a building. They are not considered telecom (at least not yet).
As we are seeing in Tampa Bay, Bright House has fiber in SO MANY places. No different in other MSA’s.