Consumers and telecom workers would benefit if SBC were permitted...
Consumers and telecom workers would benefit if SBC were permitted to offer long distance service in Ark. and Mo., CWA told FCC in comments filed Mon. “After exhaustive reviews,” regulators in both states determined SBC met Sec. 271 requirements,…
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union said. In addition, SBC’s proposed performance monitoring plan offered “adequate safeguards against backsliding,” it said. CWA argued that SBC entry into long distance in those states would increase competition, particularly for residential consumers, and would “promote the important goal of [Telecom Act] to create good, high-wage jobs in the telecommunications industry.” Assn. of Communications Enterprises (ASCENT) urged FCC to deny application as “premature” because company hadn’t “fully rectified” concerns raised by Dept. of Justice and Commission in earlier application for Mo. ASCENT said SBC continued to impose “unlawful restrictions” on resale of DSL-based services and hadn’t “adequately” met DoJ’s concerns about pricing of unbundled network elements (UNEs) in Mo. Mo. Office of the Public Counsel urged rejection for similar reasons. SBC’s latest application “failed to address key questions of compliance with Sec. 271” raised earlier by FCC and DoJ, it said. SBC lowered some UNE prices in Mo. but “a disparity in prices still exists,” public counsel said.