Mass. Attorney Gen. Thomas Reilly urged FCC to deny Verizon’s pet...
Mass. Attorney Gen. Thomas Reilly urged FCC to deny Verizon’s petition to offer long distance service in Mass., saying company’s prices for unbundled switching still were not based on Total Element Long-Run Incremental Costs (TELRIC). In April 9 letter…
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to FCC, Reilly said he first raised concern about Verizon’s switching costs in comments he filed in Oct. “Instead of adopting permanent UNE [unbundled network element] rates that are demonstrably TELRIC-based,” Reilly said, “Verizon continues to rely on New York-based UNE prices that were not investigated by the [Mass. Dept. of Telecom & Energy], do not reflect Massachusetts costs and which are now the subject of an ongoing New York investigation.” Reilly also expressed concern that “Verizon does not provision its special access service… circuits to competitors on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis.” CLECs need those circuits to provide high-speed, large capacity telephone service, he said. April 16 is deadline for FCC to act on Verizon’s petition.