SBC made Sept. payment of $2.4 million to U.S. Treasury—down f...
SBC made Sept. payment of $2.4 million to U.S. Treasury -- down from $3.8 million last month -- for not meeting all performance measures required under its merger with Ameritech. Verizon paid $1.5 million on Tues. (CD Sept 27…
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p4). SBC said payments had continued to decline and now were half of what company paid in Jan., reflecting improvements in wholesale service to competitors. Company said it had to meet 360 performance measurements disaggregated into some 20,000 submeasurements. Each month it provides results of those measurements to every CLEC in every state in its territory, company said, making it responsible for tracking nearly 3 million submeasures. Some measures are so specific that if SBC misses deadline by few hours it has to pay fee, company said.