FCC Wireline Competition Bureau extended reply comment deadline f...
FCC Wireline Competition Bureau extended reply comment deadline for wireline broadband and triennial review proceedings in light of Fri.’s U.S. Appeals Court, D.C., ruling (CD May 28 p1). D.C. Circuit remanded FCC orders on line-sharing requirements and unbundled network…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
elements (UNEs). In case of UNE order, ruling said FCC’s so-called UNE remand order appeared not to consider advantage CLECs have in not having to provide “underpriced service” to rural areas. Line-sharing case centered on requirements that ILECs unbundle portion of copper loops so they can offer competitive DSL Internet access to CLECs. Revised reply comment date for wireline broadband proceeding is now July 1 and reply deadline for Triennial Review of national UNE requirements is July 17. Bureau said it extended dates “in order to provide sufficient time to all interested parties to incorporate their review and analysis of the opinion.” AT&T this week had asked bureau to extend comment dates, saying issues connected to D.C. Circuit ruling are “intimately related to those currently before the Commission in its Triennial Review.” AT&T’s letter to Bureau Chief Dorothy Attwood said company “believes that the Court of Appeals’ concerns regarding the UNE remand order are largely being addressed in the Triennial Review, but additional time is needed to provide a complete response and rebuttal.” AT&T said if FCC issued notice of proposed rulemaking summarizing court decision and seeking comments, it should incorporate Triennial Review into new NPRM and seek feedback. If FCC incorporated remand into Triennial Review, AT&T asked that comment reply date be suspended for 60 days with rebuttal comments due 30 days after that. Separate letter supporting AT&T’s request was signed by CompTel Pres. Russell Frisby, ALTS Pres. John Windhausen, Covad Vp-Regulatory & Public Affairs Jason Oxman and others.