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The FCC Wireline Bureau seeks comment on FairPoint’s...

The FCC Wireline Bureau seeks comment on FairPoint’s petition for declaratory ruling or a waiver allowing it to provide broadband access on a non-common carrier basis, a public notice said (http://bit.ly/12saZSe). FairPoint wants a ruling that its rate-of-return ILEC subsidiaries…

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that offer wireline broadband access transmission services on a common-carrier basis may elect blanket certification to discontinue it as a common-carrier service, while following Part 60 cost allocation rules that the commission adopted for price-cap carriers. “Enforcement of the Commission’s Part 64 cost allocation rules would not serve the Commission’s policy goals,” FairPoint said, according to the public notice. Comments are due June 10 in docket 10-90, replies June 20.