AT&T called for a mandatory data request in the FCC’s...
AT&T called for a mandatory data request in the FCC’s long-running special access proceeding, claiming in a letter to the commission that its voluntary data requests failed to elicit responses from many important competitors, and the little information that was…
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received is already outdated (http://xrl.us/bmztzr). “It is now clearer than ever that competitive provider responses to the Commission’s voluntary data requests in this proceeding have been wholly inadequate to allow the Commission to assess the availability of alternatives to incumbent local exchange carrier ('ILEC') special access facilities,” wrote AT&T attorney David Lawson. The new data request should be “mandatory” for CLECs and “other competitors, to ensure that it has at least a somewhat more complete picture of marketplace conditions and to end the regulation [of] proponents’ established practice of asking for draconian and self-serving rate reductions while refusing to provide the information in their possession that would be necessary to assess the veracity of their claims,” AT&T said. It asked the FCC to require all non-ILEC competitors “provide detailed data[,] mapping the location of their facilities and infrastructure that put them in a position to bid and compete for business.” In a separate letter (http://xrl.us/bmztzk), AT&T rebutted criticisms of term and volume discounts offered by ILECs, arguing that “the submissions and actions of non-incumbents ... confirm that the terms and conditions under which ILECs provide TDM-based services have not materially affected their ability to migrate to other providers or to other types of services, including Ethernet services."