The federal government, filing as an enterprise customer, told re...
The federal government, filing as an enterprise customer, told regulators in New York and Virginia that Verizon lacks enough competition to justify deregulation, two competitive telecom companies told the FCC Thursday. “Given that the U.S. government, acting as a…
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consumer, has experienced first-hand the failure of market forces to discipline Verizon’s pricing and service quality, it is hard to fathom how the Commission could compound the problem by granting Verizon’s pending forbearance petitions,” Covad and XO Communications said in an ex parte. The letter referred to Verizon petitions to the FCC for forbearance on unbundling duties in six East Coast cities. Attached to the FCC letter were federal government filings in state proceedings reviewing Verizon’s request for pricing flexibility in New York and detariffing of retail services in Virginia. “These filings unequivocally confirm that the Verizon Telephone Companies continue to enjoy significant market power in the residential and enterprise markets and that competition is not sufficient to justify a grant of forbearance” at the federal level, Covad and XO said. Verizon requests for forbearance in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence and Virginia Beach, Va., are due for FCC action in December.