CompTel urged FCC to establish ‘procompetitive procedures’ for up...
CompTel urged FCC to establish “procompetitive procedures” for upcoming 3-year review of unbundled network elements (UNEs). In review, Commission will consider whether there’s any need to alter list of UNEs that ILECs share with competitors. CompTel Pres. Russell Frisby…
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said CLECs needed to know how FCC would conduct review so they could prepare for “premature attempts by the ILECs to remove UNEs from the national list.” It urged FCC to: (1) Establish May 18, 2003, as earliest date that any party could seek to have a UNE removed from mandatory list. (2) Convene Federal-State Joint Conference to get feedback from state regulators. (3) Clarify that 3-year review was “not an inquiry into all national UNEs so any party seeking to scale back or remove a UNE bears the burden of proof.” (4) Refuse to consider removing or scaling back UNE “if the requesting ILEC has not complied with its obligation to provide the UNE for a commercially reasonable period of time.”