The FCC should update its rules to account for Ethernet...
The FCC should update its rules to account for Ethernet over Copper (EoC) technology and the broadband capabilities it makes possible, TelePacific, a business Internet, phone and data service provider told an aide to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell Friday (http://xrl.us/bnup8y).…
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The telco has made “substantial investments” in deploying EoC, but it needs regulatory certainty to continue making such investments, it said. EoC gives TelePacific the ability to deliver broadband speeds of 10 to 50 Mbps over bare copper loops, and lets it use existing plant instead of digging up streets to install new fiber, it said. EoC has the potential to “increase broadband adoption rates where price is the primary reason for lack of adoption,” but under current rules, “if an ILEC retires the copper feeder TelePacific uses,” it is “not clear that TelePacific is permitted to object,” the telco said.