Sprint Asks FCC To Dismiss Objections to Sharing Special Access Data
Sprint urged the FCC to throw out objections to agency sharing of the sensitive carrier data it collected as it reviews its special access business service rules. "Tellingly, none of the objecting parties even attempts to allege that the release…
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of confidential or highly confidential information to any of the Filers would violate the terms [of] the October 1, 2014 Protective Order," said Sprint, an advocate of Bell special access regulation, in a filing posted in docket 05-25 Wednesday. Brown County C-LEC, Jason Tole, JSI, Parker FiberNet, Service Electric Cable, Transworld Network, US Signal Co. and Vantage Point Solutions objected to sharing of their business data -- or the data of their clients, including scores of RLECs -- with other parties, even subject to the protective order's safeguards (see 1507210027). Some said they would be harmed in a competitive market by such sharing with parties that would include their rivals (through outside counsels). But Sprint said the objecting parties "oppose any disclosure of commercially sensitive information and demand additional protections beyond those adopted by the Wireline Competition Bureau last October -- in essence challenging the Protective Order itself." Sprint said those objections are untimely because the deadline for challenging the protective order passed last October, and it urged the bureau to dismiss the objections and make the special access data available to all appropriate reviewing parties. Noting some objections that cited the need for additional information about parties seeking to review the data, Sprint said each requesting party "appears to have completed, without omission, the template Acknowledgement adopted in the Protective Order." Some of the objectors had said the FCC failed to follow through on assurances it would provide details about the requesting parties and their reasons for viewing the data.