Independent central office which provides local and long distance calling services to new residential and commercial developments

A method of providing long distance network access to new residents/tenants of a new residential housing/commercial development, comprising the steps of:

• placing telephone wires in said new residential housing/commercial development during construction of said new residential housing/commercial development;
• terminating said telephone wires at respective subscriber premises in said new residential housing/commercial development and at a wiring terminal within said residential housing/commercial development;
• connecting said wiring terminal to a telecommunications switch via a plurality of communications ports for said respective subscriber premises in said new residential housing/commercial development;
• connecting said telecommunications switch to a particular output terminal of digital switching means tariffed for data services at a central office of a local exchange carrier (LEC) using first multichannel digital data lines;
• and
• connecting said particular output terminal of said digital switching means to said long distance network, said digital switching means connecting said telecommunications switch to said long distance network via said first multichannel digital data lines.

A method of providing telephone switching services to telephone subscribers in a new residential housing development using a switch at a central office facility which is maintained independent of a LEC switch at an incumbent local exchange carrier central office facility, comprising the steps of:

• building said independent central office facility in said new residential housing development;
• connecting customer premise equipment of said telephone subscribers to said switch at said independent central office facility;
• providing direct inward dialing (DID) and direct outbound dialing (DOD) to said switch of said independent central office facility via respective DID and DOD trunk lines from said LEC switch at said incumbent local exchange carrier central office facility;
• and
• connecting telephone subscribers of another new residential housing development to said switch at said independent central office facility, comprising the steps of:
• placing a multiplexer including analog/digital and digital/analog converters at said another new residential housing development,
• connecting customer premise equipment of said telephone subscribers of said another new residential housing development to said multiplexer,
• connecting said multiplexer to digital switching means tariffed for data services at said incumbent local exchange carrier central office facility via first multichannel digital data lines, and
• connecting said digital switching means to said switch at said independent central office facility via second multichannel digital data lines.

A central office facility which is maintained independent of a switch tariffed for voice services at an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC) central office facility, comprising:

• a structure built in a new residential housing development containing a plurality of customer premises;
• a private switch located within said structure, said private switch including a plurality of customer side ports and a plurality of LEC side ports;
• wiring terminals which terminate wiring from said plurality of customer premises;
• communications lines which connect said wiring terminals to said customer side ports of said private switch;
• and
• a channel service unit for each of said plurality of LEC side ports, certain of said channel service units connecting said private switch to said switch tariffed for voice services at said incumbent LEC central office facility via DID/DOD trunk lines.