ALTS said FCC could promote DSL competition if it barred ILECs fr...
ALTS said FCC could promote DSL competition if it barred ILECs from offering DSL capabilities to customers served by remote terminals until they gave competitors same capability. In reply comments on ILEC line-sharing requirements, ALTS said such action would…
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“eliminate ILEC incentives to continue stonewalling competitors who want to provide services to those customers.” It said that while there was competition for DSL-based services there was “virtually no competition in the provision of the underlying local loop on which DSL rides.” ILECs’ arguments that they should be exempt from unbundling rules because DSL competition exists are “red herring,” filing said.