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This 3 page paper looks at the telecommunications industry during the period 1996-1999, and the changes occurring within it. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and the changes occurring within it. Statement of the Major Problems There are three major "battles" that have emerged in the wake of the Act. First,
AT&T has been allowed to get back into the local phone business; second, the Act "allowed the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) to enter the long-distance business, both within and
outside of their service region" (Marti, 1999, p. 303). There were some conditions apparently attached to that development, since they could "offer in-region long distance only after demonstrating that
they had opened their local markets to competition" (Marti, 1999, p. 303). Despite this, they were free to "offer out-of-region long distance" immediately, without preconditions (Marti, 1999, p. 303).
The third development was the fact that the Act "shifted cable companies into a new strategic position" (Marti, 1999, p. 303). They would now be able to offer telephonic
communications over the cable (Marti, 1999). The idea of offering phone service over standard television cables reveals the biggest problem the industry faces, and that is building a reliable telecommunications
network from what is essentially a hodge-podge of various cable companies (Marti, 1999). Reworking existing cable operations to support telephone communications is neither easy nor cheap (Marti, 1999).
Most cable companies would require significant upgrades if they are to be able to handle two-way communications, and the costs associated with the cable telephone service is high: "upgrading
systems to handle voice costs about $500 per subscriber and $700 to $1,200 for upgrades to handle high-speed data traffic" (Marti, 1999, p. 308). Cable networks are currently deficient
and would be unable to handle this new traffic (Marti, 1999). There are other problems with them as well, specifically the fact that they are prone to power
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