FCC Seeks To Update Record on USTelecom Petition for ILEC Nondominance
The FCC Wireline Bureau sought to refresh the record on a USTelecom petition from 2012 asking that incumbent telcos (ILECs) be declared "no longer presumptively dominant when providing interstate mass market and enterprise switched access services," said a public notice…
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Thursday in docket 13-3. Comments are due Feb. 22, replies March 7. "We particularly welcome comment on marketplace or regulatory developments, since the filing of the Petition, that may bear on the Commission’s evaluation of the Petition," the bureau said. "We also encourage commenters to address further the practical impact and scope of the finding sought by the Petition. For instance, if the Commission were to grant the Petition, what services should it appropriately find to be included in the category 'interstate mass market and enterprise switched access services'? More generally, we invite commenters to submit any other data, information, or analysis that would be relevant to the Commission’s evaluation of the Petition."