Verizon commented in support of its application to...
Verizon commented in support of its application to discontinue three “obsolete” services that can be delivered only over copper, but are no longer available in the areas where Superstorm Sandy destroyed Verizon’s copper network (http://bit.ly/1cO60nv). Verizon wants to discontinue Metallic…
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Service, Telegraph Grade Service and Program Audio Service there. “None of the seven customers of these services in the affected areas has objected to their discontinuance, nor should they: the three services are outdated and have been supplanted by new technologies and services,” Verizon said. The only comments filed in the proceeding were by “a handful of CLECs who do not purchase these obsolete, copper-based services in the affected areas, but who nonetheless seek to inject broader network transition and interconnection issues into this proceeding,” Verizon said. Any broader network transition questions are better addressed in a more general proceeding, Verizon said, urging the commission to “give these [CLEC] comments no weight in this context."