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Cablevision’s business telephony division said it won fight with ...

Cablevision’s business telephony division said it won fight with Verizon before N.J. Board of Public Utilities. Board approved Cablevision Lightpath’s renewal of its interconnection agreement with Verizon. Cablevision called decision “an important step in securing facilities-based local telephone competition”…

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in N.J. However, Verizon said it was required by law to interconnect with Cablevision and it had no intention of blocking latter’s service. Instead, points of contention addressed in arbitration were reciprocal compensation, rates and points of interconnection, Verizon said. It’s studying its options and hasn’t decided whether it will appeal, said Bruce Cohen, gen. counsel for Verizon N.J. In separate decision, N.J. board said it would support Verizon’s petition before FCC to provide long distance service in N.J.