To remedy unreasonably high incumbent LEC prices for TDM-based and...
To remedy unreasonably high incumbent LEC prices for TDM-based and packet-switched special access services, the FCC must vacate rules that let ILECs obtain pricing flexibility in the provision of special access services, counsel for tw telecom told an aide to…
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Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, according to an ex parte letter (http://xrl.us/bmw242). The company argued there was “ample evidence” for elimination of the rules, such as a 2006 Government Accountability Office finding that prices for special access services in areas where the triggers were satisfied were, on average, higher than prices in other markets. The telco also cited a National Regulatory Research Institute report which found “almost no evidence of the validity of the FCC’s current policy equating special access competition with the presence of collocation in ILEC central offices."