Structural separation of Bell companies is ‘risky business that p...
Structural separation of Bell companies is “risky business that puts service, rates and jobs in jeopardy,” Alliance for Public Technology (APT) said in letter it planned to deliver today (Mon.) to NARUC Pres. Nora Brownell, who also is Pa.…
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PUC comr. NARUC is meeting this week in Washington. Pa. PUC recently ordered Verizon to split into retail and wholesale units and CLECs have urged other state regulators to take similar action. APT said residential consumers, workers and people with disabilities could be disadvantaged by structural separation because “at best it would scatter the consumer economies of scale and scope… to the winds of the marketplace,” which tends to favor high end of market. APT said it also was concerned that splitting network could harm universal service system. In addition, union jobs could be lost as retail operations were turned into “marketing outfits,” letter said. APT urged NARUC to “do everything in your power to prevent this risky proposition from gaining momentum.”