For a successful transition to a packet-based public switched telephone...
For a successful transition to a packet-based public switched telephone network, the FCC should first pronounce that the competitive provisions of the Telecom Act “will be enforced regardless of the technology,” CompTel told FCC General Counsel Sean Lev and representatives…
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from the chairman’s office and Wireline Bureau Thursday (http://xrl.us/bn6wix). Interconnection and last-mile access rules are “vital for a functioning competitive communications market,” the association said. If ILECs are allowed to decommission their last-mile copper loops with no available alternative, many businesses will be left with no choice in service provider, CompTel said. “Ethernet over Copper” products are effectively competing with fiber services, and if copper loops are prematurely retired, it could have a “devastating impact on the availability of advanced IP services” for much of the U.S., CompTel said.