The situation presented by damaged copper, either by...
The situation presented by damaged copper, either by a natural disaster or a man-made emergency, is “fundamentally different” than a scenario involving planned copper retirement and replacement, XO told FCC officials Friday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/13bhpDV). “The general…
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copper retirement rules are inapt to the emergency situation, and the Commission needs to adopt an approach to the availability of ILEC unbundled loops specifically tailored to damage to this plant arising from natural disasters and man-made emergencies where no plans exist for copper retirement,” XO said. It advocated that, in a post-emergency situation, “an affected ILEC either continue to make available copper loops (using new copper if necessary) or provide fiber facilities or services enabling equivalent throughput to that obtained or which could have been obtained by competitors using copper (and at a net price equivalent to that of the requisite number of unbundled copper loops).”