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Wireline Bureau OKs Frontier Compliance Plan for Cost-Assignment Relief

The FCC Wireline Bureau approved a Frontier Communications plan for complying with the agency's decision to give price-cap telcos conditional forbearance relief from cost-assignment requirements, a public notice said in docket 12-61. Frontier filed a compliance plan for three of…

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the four cost-assignment conditions subject to the deregulation detailing how it would continue to fulfill its statutory and regulatory duties in the absence of the rules, the bureau said in a PN dated Friday and included in Tuesday's Daily Digest. It noted the plan was similar to those it had approved for AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon and Windstream. Frontier's plan didn't contain commitments regarding a fourth condition because it's not seeking to take advantage of the forbearance relief from a rule that requires independent ILECs providing in-region, long-distance services to do so through a separate affiliate. No opposition was filed to the Frontier plan (see 1506010024).