Folks,
Is there a web site out there that provides a map of the united states
showing each ILEC and the states within their region (Bellsouth, SBC, Qwest,
& Verizon)?
Thanks in advance,
Irwin
Irwin Lazar wrote:
Folks,
Is there a web site out there that provides a map of the united states
showing each ILEC and the states within their region (Bellsouth, SBC, Qwest,
& Verizon)?
Huh. That's strangely hard to find.
<http://ftp.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/overlays/> has an old map of the
continental U.S.
Mapping Verizon by state would be rough...
Peter E. Fry
There are something like 25 ILECs in California alone. You would need a very
detailed map to show coverage areas.
"Peter E. Fry" wrote:
Once upon a time, Roy <garlic@garlic.com> said:
There are something like 25 ILECs in California alone. You would need a very
detailed map to show coverage areas.
We got a map from our BellSouth reps of Alabama (with 32 ILECs!). I've
been told Alabama has just about the highest number of ILECs of any
state (especially for the size), but I don't know if that's true.
You might check with your $TELCO rep.
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If you are talking about ILECs that include smaller independent
telephone companies, I believe Minnesota and Iowa have the highest
count. Iowa has around 140 total ILEC companies...
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Here is the map for Ohio:
http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/STATEMAP/AC_TelServAreaA.pdf
Only 43 ILEC's here...
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 833-3635
No, but maybe this will help.
Verizon is Bell Atlantic + GTE, but GTE covers rural areas in a ton of
different states. Used to, anyhow... Bell Atlantic covers the Eastern
Seaboard, New England, WV and PA.
Due to the GTE merger, however, Verizon has chunks of several large
states, including a nice chunk of northern Ohio and several significant
pieces of California, including a chunk of the metro Los Angeles area.
SBC is SNET [Southern New England Telephone, Connecticut] + Ameritech
[Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana] + Pacific Bell [California] +
Nevada Bell [duh :)] + Southwestern Bell. Southwestern Bell
looks like it covers Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. (I figured this
out by visiting
<http://www.sbc.com/public_affairs/regulatory_documents/tariffs/1,5932,281,00.html?pid=-1>
and checking out the list of states in which they've filed tarriffs, and
eliminating the states that I knew are part of other SBC operating
companies.)
BellSouth covers the Southeast - AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN
(according to their web page http://bellsouthcorp.com/whoweare/corp.vtml).
If I'm not mistaken, the rest of the continental US is covered by Qwest.
Their web site cites WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, ND, SE, NE, MN, IA, UT, CO, AZ
and NM as their coverage area.
(*counting*) yup, that's 48 states, and I believe Verizon covers Hawaii
(former GTE area), and I have absolutely no clue who covers Alaska.
The other ILEC of any significant size would be Alltel, but they only
cover a few major markets; most of their coverage is in outlying rural
areas.
(Your timing was good. I happened to be bored a few minutes ago... you
gave me something to do...)
Mark, I wouldn't expect you to know this, as you don't live in the proper
part of the state to know the telco history here. 
But Western Reverse
(er, Western Reserve) Telephone and Alltel are listed separately, and
Alltel bought out Western Reserve years ago. Alltel has local headquarters
out in Hudson, the former home of WRT.
I suspect that a lot of states are like this, with the records reflecting
more ILECs than actually still exist. Alltel has always done business as
Alltel west of Cleveland (for example, in Elyria in Lorain County) but
they may still be operating Western Reserve as a separate business unit
covering the rural areas south and east of the city..
No big surprises here, really. Ameritech is the ILEC in the big cities,
and much of the rest of the state is divvied up between Verizon and
Sprint...
If I actually had time to research it, I'd love to find out how many of
the carriers listed on this PDF are still in business...
i was under the impresssion that ILECs (incumbent local exchange
carriers) were pretty much only the RBOCs (regional bell operating
companies) and that CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) were
the other LECs that sprung up after 96'ish?
for instance, in PA, i refer to the ILEC as verizon/BA and people like
adelphia and intermedia as CLECs.
this is a particular hazy defination that has always bugged me,
because it seems that no matter who i'm talking to, they use ILEC and
CLEC to mean different things.
btw, if you one of the people that care about ILECs and CLECs and
RBOCs, i'm reading a fascinating/enraging book called "the unofficial
biography of the baby bells and infoscandal," by kushnik.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893539008/
ps. big thanks to steve sobal, i've already filed your email away in
my quickie reference folder.
deeann m.m. mikula
director of operations
telerama public access internet
http://www.telerama.com * 412.688.3200
nope.
there are numerous ILECs that were never "Regional Bell Operating
Companies". GTE is a large example. smaller examples include mom-and-pop
operations like Taconic Telephone in Columbia County, NY. there are many,
many other small examples.
that's why the ILEC counts on a per-state basis can be upwards of 40, as
in some of the examples others have given.
richard