ISPs are at disadvantage in providing competitive advanced data s...
ISPs are at disadvantage in providing competitive advanced data services because they have to rely on incumbent telcos (ILECs) to offer their customers competitive choice in DSL service, U.S. ISP Alliance (USISPA) said in letter to FCC Chmn. Powell.…
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ISPs “cannot effectively compete if the Commission grants the requests of ILECs to eradicate long-standing FCC restrictions on the bundling of enhanced and basic telecommunications services and customer-premises equipment,” USISPA said. Bundling would allow ILECs to “leverag[e] their persistent monopoly over the local loop into a dominant position within the nascent high-speed Internet access market,” it said. It said ILECs already were gaining competitive advantage by bundling services and equipment.