FCC Proposals on IP Transition Get Industry Dynamics Wrong, ITTA Says
Proposals in the FCC November NPRM on the IP transition single out ILECs “for disparate regulatory treatment and would continue to place ILECs at a competitive disadvantage in comparison to their cable and wireless competitors,” representatives of the Independent Telephone…
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& Telecommunications Alliance said in a meeting with Wireline Bureau staff. ILECs are no longer the dominant providers of residential or business voice service, ITTA said. “We urged the Commission to refrain from adopting needless and intrusive regulations that will stifle innovation and investment and undermine its goals of facilitating the IP transition and advancing broadband deployment to consumers throughout" the U.S., the group said. ITTA expressed confidence that an analysis of the record “will show sufficient competition in the market for special access services, such that adopting the proposals in the NPRM would be premature and wholly unnecessary,” ITTA said. Its members CenturyLink and Frontier Communications also participated in the meeting, said an ex parte filing Monday in docket 14-174.