Dear Customer, you are responsible for installing power for our new FLASHWAVE 4100 that will be shared by all future customers in the building

Flashwave-4100

Our IPVPN/ESIP provider is XO and they do appear on Tier 1 provider lists.  A lot of times we have to “Type 2” over LEC’s to get service into some of our locations.  Lately I have been running into situations where AT&T, Verizon, and Quest are the LEC/Last Mile and want us to pay for shared infrastructure.  The latest one is for a location in Southern California where Verizon is out of capacity and needs to install a Fujitsu FlashWave 4100.  The want us to install electrical and grounding for it at a cost of $1000.  Once it is installed, they will run our circuit through it as well as being able to run other customers through it at a later day.  Question is, why should we have to foot the bill for getting power to it?  I get that they are out of capacity and we need the service but it just seems like there would be a better way to spread out or share the costs.

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