Level 3 Says AT&T Ethernet Charges Ignore ILEC Dominance of Dedicated Services
Level 3 said an AT&T blog made "tired arguments" that again ignored "the facts, basic economics and the law" in saying CLECs were pushing the FCC to impose ill-advised reregulation on ILEC fiber-based ethernet business services (see 1603160020). "The facts…
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are that, for the vast majority of businesses that purchase dedicated services, there is only one option: the incumbent telco. That lack of competition has meant higher prices for American businesses, governments, non-profits and others -- higher prices that get passed on to consumers," emailed Joe Cavender, vice president-federal affairs. "For years, they’ve leveraged their market power to lock out competition for these services, and now they’re using the same tactics to try to throttle competition for newer services like Ethernet. There’s no question the FCC has the authority to protect consumers from AT&T, as much as AT&T might prefer to continue to abuse their market power without oversight.”