Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings was created in 2009.

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The basic difference between an ILEC and a CLEC is that an ILEC has a duty to provide a telephone service to the public whereas a CLEC has the right to compete for that business, but is not obliged to provide the same level of service.

All LECs must abide by the FCC regulations that affect that class of carrier; the regulations affecting ILECs are slightly different than the regulations affecting CLECs. Sometimes the FCC will change the status of a CLEC to an ILEC if it serves the best interests of the public.

An example would be if the CLEC exists in an area of the country that is inadequately served by existing ILECs.

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Amit Singh Luthra

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I ncumbent L ocal E xchange C arrier

It really depends on what you want to know, there are several different classifications of telephone companies, there is the RBOC (regional bell operating company), ILEC (incumbent local exchange company), CLEC (competitive local exchange companies) and independent phone companies. That really is just the hardline companies, with the popularity of wireless carriers, the number is just going up.

In 2000, I had to get a Y2K certification letter from each carrier in the entire state of Kansas, I know at that time, there were 62 phone companies in just Kansas, cant imagine what the total is for more populated states.