Tw telecom will only be able to make its new...
Tw telecom will only be able to make its new “Intelligent Network” ubiquitously available to business customers if it gets access to ILEC special access services at “reasonable rates, terms and conditions,” tw telecom CEO Larissa Herda told FCC Chairman…
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Julius Genachowski Monday, according to an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bm8ew7). Its “Intelligent Network” is a fiber-based network aimed at giving enterprise customers access to cloud services. Tw telecom gave Genachowski a document showing the increases in monthly special access costs it would incur if it were to “forgo entering into a discount arrangement with Verizon” in legacy GTE ILEC territories in California, Florida and Texas. Tw telecom did not provide these details in its ex parte filing because “competitors would be able to use this information to determine tw telecom’s special access purchase volumes,” and the rates it pays in those territories, leading to “competitive strategies that unfairly disadvantage tw telecom,” the telco said.