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ILEC Last modified: Thursday, August 07, 2003

Short for incumbent local exchange carrier. An ILEC is a telephone company that was providing local service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted. Compare with CLEC, a company that competes with the already established local telephone business.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996  Read the text of the act that changed the telecommunications industry. Shared Loop Tutorial How ILECs and CLECs can deliver competitive DSLAM applications.