FCC should deny Verizon’s Sec. 271 petition for N.J. because comp...
FCC should deny Verizon’s Sec. 271 petition for N.J. because company hasn’t sufficiently developed local competition to merit entering long distance business, Sprint said in comments filed with Commission Mon. “If the [Bells] are allowed to enjoy the Sec.…
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271 ‘carrot’ before local competition is fully established, they will have little incentive to cooperate with competitive LECs thereafter,” Sprint said. It said recent decision by U.S. Appeals Court, D.C., remanding part of FCC’s decision permitting SBC entry in Kan. and Okla. (CD Dec 31 p2) made clear that Commission had to consider state of local competition in evaluating Sec. 271 petitions. Sprint concluded: “The CLEC industry is in a state of crisis, and the [Bells] have failed to establish themselves outside their territories. In New Jersey, residential competition, provided almost exclusively over resold Verizon facilities, has not been firmly established.” Mon. was deadline for comments on N.J. petition.