What is a competing local stock carrier?

Competitive local carriers for the local stock exchange (Clec) is a local provider of phones that competes with the established local telephone provider, known as the reigning local stock carrier (ILEC). In the United States, the existing local carrier for the local stock exchange is defined as a company that has provided local telephone service since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Competitive local carriers for local stock exchange and existing local exchange offices have its roots in the 1984. Local stock exchange companies, known as Bell Operating Companies, provided local telephone services in the geographical area. By its Long Lines division, AT&T combined local stock exchange companies with long telephone lines to provide long distance services. With the control of the local and long problems with the telephone market, AT&T and its Bell System, it has become a monopoly, although it was allowed and regulated by the United States government.

within its agreement with the government associatedCH of states were obliged to sell ownership of 22 local operating companies. While the removal of the Bell monopoly has allowed other companies to enter the market for long distances, local operating companies Bell continued as regional monopolies providing local telephone services. The AT&T after the distinction would then provide long services and expand to new technologies and services.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act helped make it easier for competing local carriers to enter the market in competition with the existing local carrier on the stock exchange, most of which were regional companies. Competitive local carriers for the local stock exchange can use its own lines and excursions or rent the use of existing lines and exchanges from the existing local exchange carrier. The law also required competing local carriers on the stock exchange to allow competitors to rent their lines and the exchangesOut, allowing competitors to enter the markets immediately. Competitive local carriers on the stock exchange are also governed by different sets of rules than local carriers on the stock exchange to support the competition.

In response to competition entering local markets, existing local stock carriers could offer consumers at a distance. This allowed consumers to have one provider for local and long -distance telephone services. Today, it is not uncommon for the competing local carrier of the local exchange and the existing carrier to be integrated by the road providers; In addition to traditional telephone services, it offers its customers internet and television.