The FCC should suspend current triggers and revamp the system...
The FCC should suspend current triggers and revamp the system to look at the existence of competitively provided special access facilities, XO told aides to Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Robert McDowell on Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bncf6o). “There is a clear mismatch between…
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the market’s lack of competitive alternatives and the regulatory relief provided pursuant to the Commission’s pricing flexibility rules,” XO said. Even as many business customers demand higher bandwidth Ethernet services, they continue to demand less robust DS1 and DS3 circuits, a trend that’s expected to continue “for the foreseeable future,” the company said. Traditional antitrust methodologies demonstrate that ILECs with phase II pricing flexibility relief “are taking advantage of the lack of competitive alternatives to price TDM channel termination circuits far above competitive levels and earn supra-competitive profits,” XO said. “This most closely reflects how providers actually operate in a market."