NewSouth Communications urged FCC to deny joint petition by BellS...
NewSouth Communications urged FCC to deny joint petition by BellSouth, SBC and Verizon that seeks elimination of unbundling requirements for high-capacity loops and dedicated transport. NewSouth, which offers variety of competitive services, said Bell companies’ petition violated 3-year “quiet…
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period” that FCC imposed on making changes in unbundling list. After Commission adopted list of unbundled network elements (UNEs) last year it said it wouldn’t reexamine list for 3 years to assure certainty, NewSouth said. “The three-year period was designed to give carriers time to implement [new interconnection] contracts and begin to realize their business plans,” NewSouth said in motion to dismiss filed April 24. “Not even a year has elapsed since some of the UNEs that the BOCs want to remove from the list first became available,” NewSouth said.