The FCC’s discontinuance on metallic special access services...
The FCC’s discontinuance on metallic special access services has some significance for interconnected VoIP service providers, Cristina Firvida, AARP director-financial security and consumer affairs, told us in an email. The Wireline Bureau on Tuesday granted Verizon a discontinuance on its…
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metallic, program audio and telegraph grade services in parts of New Jersey and New York affected by Superstorm Sandy (CD Sept 26 p14). Including interconnected VoIP providers in the discontinuance process is “a step in the right direction” because it suggests providers may be treated as common carriers and be required to provide “appropriate customer protections,” said Firvida. Many New York residents sent public comments from an AARP form letter to the New York Public Service Commission earlier this month to request the regulators force Verizon to reinstall its copper lines (CD Sept 17 p2). “AARP has focused its responses to post-Sandy petitions before the FCC on elevating the real and immediate hardships that consumers have experienced in Fire Island and other areas, and that other consumers may face should they be subject to unconstrained trials in the future,” she said. Verizon’s decision to offer a fiber service in Fire Island is a solution AARP “applaud[s] and hope[s] to see extended to other super storm areas, including New Jersey,” said Firvida.