The CLEC Association of Northern New England asked the Maine...
The CLEC Association of Northern New England asked the Maine Public Utilities Commission to investigate FairPoint’s attempt to “reclassify certain wire centers without complying with the [PUC’s] requirements established,” as the association said in a Monday petition (http://1.usa.gov/UafAES). The telco’s…
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“unilaterally-announced” actions hurt the CLECs’ ability “to obtain unbundled high-capacity loops and transport and dark fiber transport in the reclassified wire centers” under FCC unbundling rules, it said. CLECs would have to pay more for unbundled elements, the association said. It wants the PUC to declare recent FairPoint wire center reclassifications as null and void, prevent FairPoint from increasing rates as a result of that and forbid any FairPoint backbilling based on the reclassified wire center rates. FairPoint declined comment.