The IP transition “holds the potential for enormous...
The IP transition “holds the potential for enormous benefits,” but the FCC still has a big role to play ensuring continued competition, said T-Mobile Vice President Kathleen Ham in a Friday blog post. “Although conversion to a different technology has…
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been underway for years, regulators cannot afford to simply assume the transition by itself eliminates the need for all oversight of the relationship between incumbents and other carriers,” Ham wrote (http://t-mo.co/10kg2lt). “The incumbent carriers’ arguments for removing FCC regulation in this area are as antiquated as the technology to which they continue to cling. Simply put, they want the authority to raise prices and refuse network interconnection to competitors (or offer it only on their own unilateral terms). Because no telecommunications network can stand entirely on its own -- on the simplest level, one carrier’s customer must be able to call another carrier’s customer -- deregulating, as these largest carriers suggest, would be devastating to competition and consumers.”