Two advocacy groups presented White Papers at NARUC, lobbying sta...
Two advocacy groups presented White Papers at NARUC, lobbying state regulators to accept views on issues ranging from Bell company structural separations to universal service payments for wireless competitors. CompTel paper said Telecom Act and regulatory orders hadn’t been…
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enough to force ILECs to relinquish “strong incentive to preserve their local monopoly.” Solution is “structural incentives” that would “turn the monopolists’ retail organizations into competitors.” Paper is titled Structural Incentives: The Simpler, More Efficient Path to Local Competition. Competitive Universal Service Coalition (CUSC) White Paper -- The Road to Competitive Universal Service Reform -- extolled consumer benefits of easier access to universal service funding by wireless competitors and other new entrants. CUSC said there should be faster, “nondiscriminatory process” for designating competitive entrants as eligible telecom carriers (ETCs). CUSC paper also urged action to assure all federal and state universal service mechanisms were explicit and fully portable.