Verizon’s discontinuance of standalone DSL services will lead to increased...
Verizon’s discontinuance of standalone DSL services will lead to increased costs for broadband services, Vonage told an adviser to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on Thursday (http://xrl.us/bng6nn). The VoIP provider said most consumers within the Verizon regions have only two choices…
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for wireline broadband services, that telco or a cable company. With the elimination of Verizon’s standalone DSL and no more future deployment of FiOS service, most consumers “will be left with a single choice for wireline broadband services not tied to a voice telephony service, to the extent it is provided at all: their cable provider,” Vonage said. It said that if not for Verizon Wireless’s cable spectrum purchase agreements, Verizon would have continued to offer standalone DSL service. The cable deals could lead to wireless/wireline integrated products that “discriminate against over-the-top apps and services” with discriminatory routing practices that could “increase latency and result in a qualitative degradation of its voice and text messaging services,” the VoIP provider said. “Given the nexus of those agreements and Verizon Communications’ decision, Vonage respectfully suggests the Commission carefully examine the competitive effects of those actions."