A category of telecommunications carriers, identified for regulatory purposes, that provides local exchange service in competition with an ILEC, using either the CLEC's own switching and network or the CLEC's switching facilities and a combination of either the CLEC's network facilities or an ILEC's unbundled network facilities.
ISPCON is also the home of "CLEC Expo." An organization offering local telephone services. Although most CLECs are established as a telecommunications service organization, any large company, university or city government has the option of becoming a CLEC and supplying its own staff with dial tone at reduced cost. It must have a telephone switch, satisfy state regulations, pay significant filing fees and also make its services available to outside customers. This was all sanctioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
a company providing local phone services in competition with the Bell operating companies or independent phone companies, which are generally referred to as Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs)
a telephone company regulated by the same rules and regulations as the local operating company presently serving the community
a telephone company that competes within the ILEC's (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) local calling areas
a telephone company that owns its own lines and switches)
Competitive Local Exchange Company. Any company certificated by the Commission to provide local exchange telecommunications service in Florida on or after July 1, 1995.
Competitive Local Exchange Company is a service provider who provides competitive communications services in the ILEC's territory.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. CLECs can offer a variety of services such as local exchange, long distance, international, and Internet access. Depending on the type of authority granted to a particular CLEC by the FCC and/or a State Public Service Commission, CLECs may also build their own networks consisting of local loops, wired, or wireless. CLECs can also lease facilities from Incumbent LECs or other CLECs at wholesale rates for resale to end users. CLECs include PCS providers, Cable Providers (CATV), Competitive Access Providers (CAPs), Local Multipoint Distribution System Operators (LMDS), and power utilities.
(Competitive Local Exchanged Carrier): A relatively new telephone company, competing with the entrenched local telephone company (called ILEC s) who used to be a protected monopoly. CLECs are believed to meet customer needs and drive innovation much better than the traditional telephone company. CLECs serve to push down prices for local telephone service. They are also called CAPs (Competitive Access Providers); compare to LEC and ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A new provider of local telephone service that competes with an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC), the utility that previously provided local phone service as a regulated monopoly.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A new provider of local telephone service that competes with an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC). (See "Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier," "Telecommunications Act of 1996.")
A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) is a company (like AT&T) that competes with the already established local telephone business (like Pacific Bell) by providing its own network and switching or by reselling the local telephone company’s phone service. The term distinguishes new or potential competitors from established local exchange carriers (LECs) and arises from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was intended to promote competition among both long-distance and local phone service providers.
A competitor to the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (your local phone company) offering telecommunications service.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 enabled CLECs (pronounced see-leks) to use the infrastructures of ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers-e.g. GTE, Verizon, Regional Bell, etc) for the purpose of resale and/or access to unbundled network elements (UNEs), such as switches. ISPs are examples of CLECs; to offer customers DSL service, they access copper loops from ILECs.
A CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) is a telephone company that competes with an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) such as a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), GTE, ALLNET, etc. With the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there has been an explosion in the number of CLECs. The Act allows companies with CLEC status to use ILEC infrastructure.
Any company or person authorized to provide local exchange services in competition with an ILEC. The CPUC's (California Public Utility Commission's) official definition is " Competitive Local Carrier (CLC) means a common carrier that is issued a Certificate of Public Convenience and necessity (CPCN) after the effective date of July 24, 1995, to provide local exchange telecommunications service for a geographical area specified by such carrier. There are two CLEC types: Facilities-based and Non-facilities-based, see definitions.
Abbreviation for "Competitive Local Exchange Carrier"] A telecom company that is in competition with the local Bell (or other) telephone company. The term was coined after the 1996 Telecommunications Act which deregulated the telecom industry. CLECS include cable companies, ISPs, cellular providers and others.
Competitive local exchange carrier. A competitive access provider (see CAP) that also provides switched local telecommunications services.
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Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. This term denotes any of a new class of local telco’s who are providing local dialtone and extended services [such as DSL] in the wake of deregulation.
Stands for "Competitive Local Exchange Carrier."
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Refers to new telecom operators that don't own existing telecom network infrastructure. Contrast with ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. In the United States, a CLEC is a company that competes with the already established local telephone business by providing its own facilities or through reselling. The term distinguishes new or potential competitors from established local exchange carriers (LECs) and arises from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was intended to promote competition among both long-distance and local phone service providers.
Pronounced see-leck. A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier is a telephone company that competes with an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) such as a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), Verizon, Bellsouth, etc.
An LEC that competes with the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) in a given market. A company may be the ILEC in one market and CLEC in another.
A company authorized by state utilities commissions to provision telecommunications services within a given region. These companies compete with the ILEC's or Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (also knowns as Baby Bells or RBOC's). A Data CLEC is a company such as Covad Communications that delivers data services to its clients.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Created by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a CLEC is a service provider that is in direct competition with an incumbent service provider. CLEC is often used as a general term for any competitor, but the term actually has legal implications. To become a CLEC, a service provider must be granted "CLEC status" by a state's Public Utilities Commission. In exchange for the time and money spent to gain CLEC status, the CLEC is entitled to co-locate its equipment in the incumbent's central office, which saves the CLEC considerable expense.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. They build or rebuild their own local loops, wired, or wireless. They also lease local loops from ILECS or RBOCS at wholesale rates for resale to end-users.
In the United States, a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) is a company that competes with the already established local telephone business by providing its own network and switching.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. (Pronounced SEE-leck) The original competitors to the deregulated national phone giants. These smaller companies offer their own alternative phone services over leased wires or their own networks. See also ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A term coined for the deregulated, competitive telecommunications environment envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The CLECs compete with the BOCs for local exchange service, long distance, international, Internet and entertainment (cable) customers.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A local exchange carrier (local telephone company) that competes outside its traditional operating territory or a "new" telephone company that competes for service in the same territory as an existing local exchange carrier using access to its wireline infrastructure.
(Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) - A telephone company created after de-regulation. See ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier – A Chicago-area CLEC leases circuits from SBC and sells them to their own customers. CO - Central Office - A telephone company facility with circuit switches that terminate all the local access lines in a local geographic area. T-1, and other types of circuits, connect the user to their central office and ultimately on to their ISP or other destination.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Multiple local service providers competing in a single geographic location.
Short for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, a company that competes with an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) such as Verizon, AT&T, etc. After deregulation of the telephone industry in 1996 consumers, consumers are able to choose between carriers in their area.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier A telephone company that competes with an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier to provide telecommunications services. Important to CLEC telecommunications networking is the availability of Unbundled Network Elements, which make them available to the local loop. With the local loop, CLECs are able to connect their switches with the ILEC's switches, thus giving them access to ILEC customers.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. The new competitors to the original Bells after deregulation. See also ILEC.
Competitive "L"ocal "E"xchange "C"arrier. Covad, WorldCom and New Edge are examples. CLECs lease lines, collocation space, and equipment to provide a competitive alternative solution to your local telco's data services. The FCC determines which companies receive CLEC status versus ILEC status, per the 1996 Telecommunications Act that makes competitive local and long distance voice and data services possible.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A company that competes with the established local telephone company by providing its own network and switching. Such companies arose from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was intended to promote competition among both long-distance and local phone service providers. CLECs often provide various kinds of Internet connectivity and broadband services, usually in partnership with other providers.
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Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. An alternative to the existing local phone company.
the commercial entities created to compete with the ILECs when the Baby Bells were broken up. Covad and OneEighty Networks are two examples of CLECs.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A long distance carrier, cable company, or small start-up local exchange carrier that competes for business in a local telephone market. Many CLECs also offer Internet services.
Pronounced see-lek. Short for competitive local exchange carrier, a telephone company that competes with an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) such as a Regional Bell Operating Company.
A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier which is not the Incumbent (ILEC) or market-leading LEC. CLECs compete on a selective basis for local exchange service and long distance Internet access and cable TV/video-on-demand. They build or rebuild their own loops (wired or wireless) and lease local loops from ILECs at wholesale rates for resale to end-users CLECs include cellular/PCS providers ISPs IXCs CATV providers CAPs, LMDS operators and power utilities.
A CLEC, or Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, is a company that competes with local telephone firms by establishing its own network and switching.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier A telephone company that competes with other local phone companies within an exchange, or calling area, to provide local telephone service.
A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier is a local telephone company available to subscribers within a geographic area that is not the original local telephone company. See ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, company that typically leases capacity from the local telephone company and resells it. In some cases these companies have networks of their own, such as in large cities.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A telecommunications company which competes with the previously-existing telephone company to provide local service.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier or Certified Local Exchange Carrier.
The acronym for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier.
(competitive local exchange carrier) offers local telecommunications service in competition with incumbent service providers.
(Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) After deregulation of the telecommunications industry, companies that traditionally had the exclusive, franchised right and responsibility to provide local transmission and switching services were joined by new companies that are free to offer comparable services. LECs (local exchange carriers) were born. Traditional telcos became known as ILECs (incumbent LECs), while new, independent data and voice telecommunication services companies became known as CLECS (competitive LECs).
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Any company offering local telephone service, whether facilities-based or resold, in an area already served by an ILEC.
(Competitive Local Exchange Carrier): CLECs compete with Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) and provide their own switching and networks, though they usually lease the lines and capacity from an ILEC. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 made this competition possible by regulating the prices that ILECs could charge CLECs for use of the ILEC's network.
Short for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, a telephone company that competes with ILEC's (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers).
Competitive Local Exchange Company. A company that received authority to provide local telephone service subsequent to the enactment of the Georgia Competition and Development Act of 1995 and the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. The rates charged by CLEC's are not regulated by the Commission.
Short for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the door to competition for local phone service. This act mandated that the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) such as Bell Atlantic Bell South or GTE provide the necessary interfaces so that CLECs could provide seamless local service. For example Covad Communications is a CLEC.
Competitive local exchange carrier ("SEE-lec"), a telephone firm that competes with one or more ILECs
(Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) A CLEC is any company that competes for customers with a local exchange carrier by providing local service using all or some part of a network. (Resellers, CAPs, LECS)
Competitive Local Exchange Company, see LEC
Pronounced see- lek. Short for ompetitive ocal xchange arrier, a telephone company that competes with an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) such as a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), GTE, ALLNET, etc.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A facilities based or a reseller of services provided by the Local Exchange Carrier.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Authorized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this effectively constituted Phase II of the deregulation of the Telecommunications Market in the United States. Phase I was characterized by the divestiture of AT&T with the Judge Green decision of 1984. This decision lead to the creation of the Baby Bells and enabled stronger competition in the long distance market by MCI and Sprint. Phase II targeted the "local loop" and the Local Exchange Carriers (Bells and others) and led to the formation of startup companies with new investment capital. Some CLECs chose to resell excess capacity from the traditional carriers, others to create new plant, such as SONET ring fiber networks for business customers.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A facilities-based provider of local exchange service, other than an ILEC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier; a category of telephone service provider that offers local exchange services in competition with those of the incumbent carrier.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier -- the new competitive entrants.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A telephone company that competes with the larger incumbent phone carriers (ILECS) through leasing and reselling the ILEC service and/or creating services that use the ILECâ€(tm)s infrastructure. The Regional Bell Operating Companies are ILECs; local phone companies are frequently CLECs. Depending on the type of authority granted to a particular CLEC by the FCC and/or a State Public Service Commission, CLECs may build their own networks consisting of local communications “loops†in the community, (wired, or wireless). CLECs include PCS providers, Cable Providers (CATV), Competitive Access Providers (CAPs), Local Multipoint Distribution System Operators (LMDS), and power utilities.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A new entrant providing local wireline phone service.
An American term for an organisation other than a traditional telephone company offering local telephone services.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. "Competitors" to the ILECs. They do not own any lines, and must lease their lines from ILEC in order to provide any service.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Deregulated local telephone companies resulting from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that are competing for local exchange service, as well as for long distance and Internet service.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. See Local Exchange Carrier (LEC).
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CLEC is a term for the deregulated and competitive telecommunications environment. CLECs compete for local exchange service, long distance, international, Internet access, and entertainment (i.e. Cable TV and On Demand). They build their own local loops, as well as lease local loops from the ILEC (Incumbent LEC) at wholesale prices to resell to the end user.
(Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) - This term was created after the Telecommunications Deregulation Act of 1996. The CLECs intend to compete on a selective basis for local exchange service, as well as long distance, international, Internet Access and entertainment (e.g. cable TV and video-on-demand). They will build/rebuild wired/wireless loops. They will also lease local loops from the ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) at wholesale rates to resell to end users. CLECS will include cell phone companies, ISPs, power utilities, CATV (Community Antenna or Cable TV) and PCS (Personal Communication Services) providers.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Companies that compete on a selected basis for local exchange service, long-distance, international Internet access, and entertainment (i.e., cable TV).
Competitive local exchange carrier, such as Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) GTE, AllNet, etc. Telephone company that competed with the already established local telephone businesses.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A company that builds and operates communication networks in metropolitan areas and provides its customers with an alternative to the local telephone company.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier The new local phone company - in the past few years, you've started to have a choice for your local phone company. CLECs have been more active in servicing business customers, since that's where the money is. Many ISPs use CLECs, many CLECs own an ISP. At one point, CLECs were using ISPs to get the ILEC in town to pay them for every minute an ILEC customer was online using the CLEC's ISP... A source of protracted litigation and political battles. This concept was called "Reciprocal Compensation". See "Law of Unintended Consequences".
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A telephone service company that provides local telephone service that competes with the ILECs.
Providers of local telecommunications service in competition with incumbent local exchange carrier ( ILEC).
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier - Any company or person authorized to provide local exchange services in competition with an ILEC.
Competitive local exchange carrier: Born out of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a CLEC is a service provider that is in direct competition with the incumbent service provider. "CLEC" is often used in general terms as for any competitor, but the term actually has legal implications. In order to become a CLEC, you must be granted "CLEC status" by a state's Public Utilities Commission. In exchange for the dollars and time spent on gaining that status, the CLEC is entitled to co-locate its equipment in the incumbent's central office, which saves them a lot of money. Cahners In-Stat
A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) is a provider of local telephone service who competes directly with other CLECs or the incumbent RBOC.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A company that competes with the currently established local telephone company. The term CLEC describes new or potential competitors as distinct from established, Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs).
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A company making a new local offering of dial-tone services, usually in competition to the incumbent, formerly monopoly, carrier.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. These are new local carriers, typically formed after the US Telecommunications Act of 1996, to compete with the incumbent RBOCs.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A U.S. telephone company that competes with the already established local telephone business by providing its own network and switching. The term distinguishes new or potential competitors from established local exchange carriers (LEC) that were providing local service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. An business authorized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that can deliver alternative dial-tone and other services using an incumbent carrier's equipment.
A company that competes with the established local telecommunications company to provide voice and data communications services. CLECs were a development of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A competitor to ILECs offering telecommunications service.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier are companies competing for local telephone business.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier; a carrier competing against the established local carrier for local, long distance and Internet access, usually.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. Any telephone company that offers service in a specific area. Now that the industry has been deregulated, several companies may offer service in a single area. New ones entering a market are Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. The original telephone company at the time of deregulation is known as the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (See also "ILEC").
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) – An acronym coined for the development of a new category that was created through deregulation under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. An organisation that competes with other local phone companies within an exchange, or calling area, to provide local telephone, as well as long distance, international, Internet access and Cable TV.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A telecommunication company utilizing an incumbent carrier's telecom facilities in conjunction with its own localized equipment to provide unregulated, modern services.
A telephone company that competes with an ILEC. CLECs in the United States today focus mainly on delivering dial tone to business customers.
A Competitive Local Exchange Company (also know as an Alternative company – ALEC). A company offering and providing local exchange service in direct competition to any other local exchange service provider (RBOC, ILEC, CLEC, ALEC, etc).
A phone service company that competes with the already established LEC (LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER) (see also) to provide phone service through its own network and switching or by leasing other companies' equipment
(Pronounced "see-lek") Competitive local exchange carrier. Company that competes with the already established local telecommunications business by providing its own network and switching.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. An alternative local telephone company that competes against incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) for local and access business. Also known as a competitive access provider (CAP) or alternate local telephone company (ALT). Companies that build high-bandwidth fiber-optic networks to compete with the incumbent telephone and cable operators. See also overbuilder.