Nashville

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Nashville 3 March 2006 www.AmericanCLEC.com Mich
ael Tague 502-815-7171 tague_at_AmericanCLEC.com
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Why Become a CLEC?

• Savings
• Opportunity
• A Future

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PRI Savings

• 70/mo for PRIs
• LATA wide calling
• Fewer POPs required (Queuing efficiency)
• Eliminates lots of circuits
• More local calling areas

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T1 Savings

• 70 less than typical retail loops
• E.g. Indiana, SBC
• Local loop 38
• Distant 50 1.65/mile
• E.g. Tennessee, BellSouth
• Local loop 51
• Distant loop 129 0.36/mile

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Backend Loop Savings

• DS3s replaced by cross-connects 30.
• To Backbone providers
• To ATM network for DSL
• Telco Collocation
• A bit stiff to go into 10,000
• Great place to be 300-700/mo
• Power
• Environmentals

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Did I mention Savings?

• Typical ISP 40 of Rev on Telecom
• CLEC ISP 20.
• Where does the other 20 go
• Vacation House
• Boat, cars, plane
• New products, invest in business

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Opportunities

• Serve New Markets
• Dial-up 0.29/month/subscriber
• LATA Wide new towns, new local numbers
• Distant T1s
• 18 - 50 miles BS in Tennessee
• 83 50 miles SBC in Indiana
• Low cost T1s for high quality VoIP
• Low cost VoIP Termination 70 PRIs
• Interface, ports, 911, operator services

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A Future

• HDSL loops to replace T1s
• 9.64 (in TN)
• DSLAMs own the DSL network
• Colo 10k, Remote 2k
• Fiber, access to poles conduits

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Telephone Service

• Purchase a Phone Switch
• See Coppercom Presentation!
• Provide CLASS 5 services
• PRIs, POTS, Call Waiting,
• Voice Mail, Centrex
• VoIP Only a Consideration

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Misconceptions

• It takes two years to start-up as a CLEC
• Must purchase expensive phone switch
• 250,000 - 750,000
• A CLEC requires unique technical skills
• Nightmare of paperwork and bureaucracy
• Well, not everything is a misconception!

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American CLEC

• Help Your ISP become a CLEC
• Operational in six-eight months
• No expensive phone switching equipment
• We do it all incorporation, interconnection,
  state PSC approval, applications, filings,
  agreements, codes, IDs, collocation, circuit
  turn-up, ordering, documentation, phone numbers,
  conversion.
• Pay us out of savings after completion.
• We give you a CLEC, not a headache

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Process

• We come and meet you
• We go over existing network layout and circuit
  costs
• We prepare detailed proposal
• You decide in your own time