[conspire] suggestions for web based email

[Fred Brockman]

My understanding is that AT&T and Comcast are petitioning the FCC to 
get out of supporting CLECs.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/while-net-neutrality-fight-continues-congress-and-states-att-and-verizon-are

For those that don't know EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


At 01:28 PM 8/17/2018, Rick Moen wrote:
>Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
>
>[no thoughts about outsourced e-mail, as I prefer to do my own]
>
> > I could also consider dropping ATT as ISP, but how does that work when
> > ATT owns the cable?
>
>Under the applicable regulatory regime (flowing from the
>Telecommunications Act of 1996), AT&T[0] is required to let its telco
>cable between your residence and the telco central office be a neutral
>transport for traffic handled by any carrier.  In the lingo, it is
>considered an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier).  Those other
>carriers required by law to be permitted to use the cable are dubbed
>CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers).
>
>More at:  https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ilec.htm
>
>So, for example, Chez Moen's landline cable carries aDSL traffic between
>my Westell aDSL bridge device[1] and Raw Bandwidth Communications's DSLAM
>(digital subscriber line access multiplexer) in the telco central office
>-- over telephone company, i.e., ILEC, twisted-pair wire.
>
>We like Raw Bandwidth Communications.  Good firm.
>
>
>[0] Formerly SBC, formerly Pacific Telesis, formerly Pacific Bell,
>formerly AT&T.
>
>[1] A type of hardware appliance popularly but erroneously called a
>'modem'.
>
>
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