AT&T met with FCC Wireline Bureau officials Wednesday to offer...
AT&T met with FCC Wireline Bureau officials Wednesday to offer suggestions on the commission’s upcoming special access data collection, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnoten). The telco said the agency should gather information from all non-ILECs to identify: (1) locations…
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of existing facilities; (2) locations other than ILEC wire centers where they interconnect; (3) geographic areas that technically can be served with existing non-ILEC facilities; and (4) locations that can be served in the near future based on existing planning. “It is absolutely essential that the Commission collect from all competitive providers, large and small, adequate location data regarding not only their existing building connections (whether wireline or wireless), but also their fiber or other ‘ring’ facilities from within such building connections are established,” AT&T said. It also took issue with the commission’s recent finding that metropolitan statistical area-wide relief is overbroad. That finding “fails properly to account for the fact that in the MSAs where incumbent LECs have qualified for Phase II pricing flexibility for channel terminations using the Commission’s revenue based collocation triggers, almost all of the MSA-wide special access demand has been in the wire centers relied upon to obtain that pricing flexibility,” AT&T said.