CLECs that simply repackage broadband connections they have bought from local phone companies at wholesale prices.

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CLECs argue that since the lines are already in place and DSL doesn't disrupt the phone service, it costs RBOCs nothing to share the line so CLECs should pay nothing.

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CLECs did not do the same is a mystery.

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Low-cost line sharing should encourage more aggressive DSL deployment because it is a dramatic improvement in the business case for DSL CLECs, says Strategis Group, a networking analysis firm in Washington, D.

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CLECs' choice of technology was not entirely arbitrary.

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CLECs have left behind.

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