Public Knowledge asked the FCC to slow down
Public Knowledge asked the FCC to slow down when acting on Verizon’s Section 214 application to discontinue domestic telecom services on Fire Island, in a filing Monday (http://bit.ly/12Zuu8b). “The FCC should exercise its discretion to take the time needed to…
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review Verizon’s application without the threat that the application will be automatically granted before all of the evidence has been collected,” a PK spokesman said. Verizon has asked for streamlined approval. “Verizon’s application to replace its traditional, copper-based service with a more limited fixed wireless service raises several important new questions, and the FCC should not let this application receive approval before it takes the time to consider all of the data still being gathered,” said PK senior staff attorney Jodie Griffin. “This application presents new issues that could potentially bear on how the FCC will approach similar circumstances in the future, when natural disasters damage infrastructure,” Griffin said in a blog entry on the filing (http://bit.ly/12ZuHrJ).