The FCC should require CenturyLink-Qwest to allow its competitors’ port...
The FCC should require CenturyLink-Qwest to allow its competitors’ port interconnection agreements and should eliminate CenturyLink’s “reliance on the rural exemption and separate subsidiaries in a single state to avoid statutory obligations,” Charter Communications said in ex parte meetings with…
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commission staff. After CenturyLink buys Qwest, the combined company should also see its Universal Service Fund support drop, Charter said in a filing posted Monday to docket 10-110. “In particular, the merged entity should not receive such support in areas where another facilities-based wireline competitor is providing competing voice service to the public on an unsubsidized basis. Further, in areas where the merged entity still requires High Cost Program support, this support should be set at the non-rural ILEC rates."