CenturyLink asked the FCC to reject calls by state consumer advoc...
CenturyLink asked the FCC to reject calls by state consumer advocates to allow additional state oversight of the takeover of Embarq by CenturyTel that created CenturyLink (CD July 29 p8). The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates and…
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the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel said the FCC should require that state public service commissions and state advocates be given access to CenturyTel wholesale reports and receive quarterly updates about how broadband commitments are being carried out. The consumer advocates “have not met the standards for reconsideration,” because they failed to identify errors or raise new facts, CenturyLink said in an opposition filing last week. “Modifying the commitments, after the fact, is also unnecessary and entirely inappropriate.” Competitive local exchange carriers are “more than capable of monitoring the wholesale performance they receive to ensure the merger” doesn’t disrupt their service, the carrier said. And the FCC already has a duty under the Broadband Data Improvement Act to develop a system to get information to state commissions about high-speed access, it said.