Copper will long remain a “prevalent and important part of...
Copper will long remain a “prevalent and important part of the network,” and the FCC should suspend the current rules regarding copper retirement, TelePacific told FCC Wireline Bureau staff, members of the Technology Transitions Task Force, and aides to several…
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commissioners Wednesday (http://bit.ly/Xsm7gs). The commission should modify the retirement rules to ensure that customers receiving broadband over copper loops don’t lose affordable broadband service, TelePacific said. The commission should also ensure that the rules promote regulatory certainty necessary for further investments in development of new technologies for affordable broadband over copper, it said. “Copper loops are an important input in the deployment of competitive broadband options to small and medium sized businesses,” the telecom provider said, saying Ethernet over Copper offers up to 50 Mbps capacity. The commission “should not condemn customers to a single broadband provider, or to a duopoly."