Premature deregulation of market power in the special access market...
Premature deregulation of market power in the special access market is causing anti-competitive issues for BT in the downstream global managed network services market, executives told aides to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on Friday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnivbn).…
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BT urged Clyburn to vote to suspend the pricing flexibility triggers, and to quickly issue the long-pending mandatory data request. The company also asked why it couldn’t obtain in the U.S. the same remedies that Verizon calls for in the U.K. market: Prices “as low as possible in order to facilitate a genuinely competitive marketplace and drive down prices for customers,” and “a clear set of remedies” for legacy and Ethernet products, it said, quoting Verizon’s business response to a call for input by the U.K. Office of Communications (http://xrl.us/bnivb7).