The Connecticut Internet Service Providers Association (CTISPA) urged...
The Connecticut Internet Service Providers Association (CTISPA) urged Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) Friday to require Frontier Communications to offer DSL service to ISP end users in Connecticut who don’t maintain plain old telephone service (POTS) -- known as…
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offering a “dry loop” -- when ISPs buy wholesale DSL transport. The dry loop offering should be a public interest condition in Connecticut’s settlement with Frontier for regulatory approval of its purchase of AT&T’s wireline, broadband and video assets in the state, CTISPA said (http://bit.ly/1nAYGgA). PURA is considering revisions to the settlement after it rejected late last month a settlement version that Frontier reached with state Attorney General George Jepsen and the Office of Consumer Counsel (CD Sept 3 p16). AT&T currently offers dry loops in the state only to its own customers but not to ISP end users, still requiring those users to maintain a POTS line in order to have DSL while using a wholesale DSL transport service, CTISPA said. Elsewhere, AT&T offers dry loops to its own customers and ISP end users, the group said. PURA has jurisdiction to require the dry loop condition because it is a “local voice loop issue” rather than an ISP service issue or DSL provisioning issue, CTISPA said.