The FCC shouldn’t grant ILEC requests for forbearance...
The FCC shouldn’t grant ILEC requests for forbearance of structural separations requirements, wrote the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates in a letter Friday (http://bit.ly/16sQYkB). “Nonstructural safeguards do not provide the same level of protection against misallocation of costs…
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as do separate affiliate requirements.” Intermodal competitive pressures won’t protect consumers, NASUCA said, criticizing the “carriers’ ultimate goal” of “elimination of all regulation” except that which “benefits individual classes of carriers, or restricts their competitors.” If and when the FCC grants the requests for forbearance, it will “further whittle away at the Commission’s own authority, contrary to the public interest,” NASUCA said.