The subsequent section describes the process and stated criteria of the
RBOC for selecting Federal Reserve District boundaries and Reserve Bank cities and the possible role of politics in the selection of those cities.
Allowing
RBOCs to enter the market for long distance services was easy--the law eliminated the line of business restrictions imposed on them a decade earlier once they were found to have opened their markets to competition.
These units had minimal success attracting new customers in the global telecommunications equipment market; revenue was still dominated by sales to the AT&T services unit and the
RBOCs. A bold new venture into the computer market failed.
"UNE-P: the Un-Profit: Regulation Pressuring
RBOC Profits." 21 August 2002.
In 1984, twenty-two BOCs organized into seven regional monopolies, or
RBOCs: Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, SBC Communications, and US West.
The
RBOCs also offer VoIP, but, for now, tend to play that service down.
To deal with the statistical problems inherent in the aggregate models, the "disaggregate" statistical model allows for state-specific impacts of an
RBOC's receipt of section 271 authority.
For example, if a
RBOC dominated the local market exclusively and competed in the high-speed service market, it could sustain its bottleneck more readily in the core services market because joint costs would fall as joint profits expanded.
Peterson, Tollgrade president to discuss this issue, which is not only costing
RBOCs millions of dollars as test heads age and fail, but also impedes their ability to prepare their networks for the future.
Profit growth will resume if the monopoly grip of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (
RBOCs) is broken.
* A suite of Multi-service Intelligent Access Platforms that provide digital loop carrier systems, universal access platforms, dial data routing, fiber muxs and remote network interface devices (NID) for local exchange carriers, CLECs and
RBOC operators.
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