The FCC must not review Verizon’s Section 214...
The FCC must not review Verizon’s Section 214 request in Fire Island, N.Y, “as if it were a routine matter,” the Computer & Communications Industry Association told the commission Wednesday (http://bit.ly/16dAUNk). “The underlying issue the FCC must decide is whether,…
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in the wake of a disaster, an incumbent carrier can decide unilaterally to replace landlines with less capable service, which has not been tested on a large scale,” the association said. The commission should consider the effects on networks’ interconnectivity in the wake of a disaster, the effects on consumers of the changes to this “basic public utility service,” and “Verizon’s abuse of regulatory process and disregard for the goals and mandates of the Telecommunications Act,” CCIA said. “Allowing Verizon to replace landline networks with experimental fixed wireless free of FCC standards and safeguards will set the precedent that phone companies are allowed to retreat to substandard technology in the wake of a disaster. Even if Voicelink [sic] can be improved to become successful, future experiments are uncertain, which puts consumers and the entire telecom ecosystem at risk."