?What was the reasoning behind the development of CLECs?

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?The reasoning behind the development of CLECs was fairly straightforward and meant to better accommodate the way phone services were already being delivered. For example, in some areas of the country, local cable television companies already offered local telephone service. Because a majority of homes and businesses in the United States are already wired for cable television, allowing cable companies in other areas to offer local telephone service over those same cable TV lines seemed like a reasonable idea. Termed cable-telephone or cable telephony, telephone services over cable television lines are now offered by most of the major cable television companies- including Cox Communications and Comcast, as well as many smaller cable companies-in most major cities across the country. In fact, large cable companies in the U.S. are achieving penetration rates of as high as 10 to 20 percent in their particular markets. Of new subscribers, 95 percent are dropping their old local telephone service in favor of the new cable service, and some reports indicate that the number of cable telephony subscribers in 2005 exceeded 14 million, with 22 million predicted by the end of 2008. The medium that delivers cable telephony is a hybrid of fiber and coaxial cable called Hybrid Fiber Coax, or HFC. This technology can also deliver cable modem service into homes and businesses.