FCC Sets Comment Dates on CenturyLink Request To Consolidate Study Areas
The FCC is seeking comments by Jan. 21 and replies Feb. 5 on a CenturyLink waiver petition to ease consolidated regulatory treatment in states where it has multiple incumbent local telco coverage areas, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Tuesday…
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in docket 15-324. The petition requests "a waiver, to the extent required, of sections 51.907 and 51.915 of the Commission’s rules to facilitate a pro forma internal restructuring plan whereby CenturyLink will undertake to merge some or all of its ILECs in states in which it has multiple ILECs to reduce the number of Study Areas in the state,” the bureau said. “CenturyLink states that the waiver is sought ‘to ensure that the Transitional Access Rates and eligible recovery of its ILECs can be consolidated in each jurisdiction and calculated on the basis of each surviving Study Area in a state.’”