Ga. CLEC founded by former BellSouth employees urged Ga. PSC and ...
Ga. CLEC founded by former BellSouth employees urged Ga. PSC and possibly other state commissions in BellSouth region to consider structural separation as remedy for local interconnection problems CLEC said it had experienced at hands of BellSouth. But BellSouth…
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spokesman said company was striving to treat CLECs fairly and efficiently in Ga. and other states. He said nothing in federal or state law would authorize such a draconian legal remedy as structural separation for problems that CLEC Access Integrated Networks (AIN) claimed to have experienced. In letter to Ga. PSC members, Macon, Ga.-based AIN cited list of problems it said it had faced in getting wholesale service from BellSouth. AIN said PSC needed to take action so CLECs would get level of wholesale service they were entitled to receive. Company suggested that, “ultimately, the only permanent remedy for these types of problems is separation of BellSouth into independent wholesale and retail entities.” Letter cited Pa. as state that had decided in favor of structural separation for its Bell company. Letter indicated AIN, which was founded in 1996 by 5 ex- BellSouth employees, might urge other BellSouth states to follow similar course toward separation. BellSouth in Ga. is in process of proving to Ga. PSC that its local market is open enough to support filing of Sec. 271 interLATA long distance application. BellSouth is near end of 3rd party operation support system testing.