Lines of business

Windstream breaks out financial results by 3 lines of business:

Consumer and small business - they say that's the ILEC
Wholesale - carriage for other carriers. It sounds like this is part of the CLEC business
Enterprise - basically the CLEC minus the wholesale business

How hard would it be to unload or shut down much of "Enterprise" while hanging on to "Wholesale"

Enterprise brings in more revenue but has lower margins than the other two lines of business. From comments here, it sounds like it's a bigger shambles than what we have here in ILEC country.

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Wholesale is mainly ILEC actually utilizing the copper/fiber networks in the exchanges serviced to provide E-Access and/or TDM loops to other carriers. There is a CLEC component mainly brought in from legacy acquisitions (Paetec, Earthlink) where they resell loops with MPLS or straight T1's. Then there's the transport network (mainly KDL and some of the Paetec stuff) that is best described as CLEC but some of it is connected together through ILEC exchanges. The transport network will be the hardest to split as well as the core data equipment that sits in many of the major carrier hotels in the country and is utilized across both sides of the house.

Well considering they just split wholesale up by ilec and CLEC not hard...

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