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In the years before the telecom megamergers, competitive local exchange carriers ("CLECs") like MCI and AT&T Local Services competed head-to-head with incumbent local exchange carriers ("ILECs") such as Verizon, BellSouth, and SBC for the business of large users by offering additional discounts when a customer purchased both local and interexchange services. The ILECs responded by introducing or expanding programs that offer discounts to customers who commit certain volumes of traffic and waging war on programs that allowed resale of their services at reasonable rates. Although the CLECs have been battered and telecom megamergers may diminish competition for local services, enterprise customers can still reap substantial savings by negotiating multi-year agreements for local services. Because of our first-hand knowledge and first-on-the-ground experience, LB3's clients have reaped the benefits in the local services market, including the emerging market of integrated local/interexchange agreements.
While the lawyers at Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP, have extensive experience negotiating local services contracts, we are not admitted to practice law in every state. Where advice from local counsel is required and we do not have a lawyer admitted to practice in a state, we can arrange for such assistance.
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