Voice Coalition Backs Granite Bid To Change Wholesale Platform Sunset Trigger
The Wholesale Voice Line Coalition urged the FCC to change the trigger for ending a wholesale platform service requirement for incumbent telcos in the transition from legacy TDM networks to IP-based systems. Backing a Granite Telecom request in docket 13-5,…
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the coalition said the commission should tie the sunset of the "regulatory backstop for wholesale platform services to the conclusion of an examination of the relevant market for wholesale platform services, rather than the special access market." Coalition members "serve business customers across the United States, primarily focusing on providing voice lines to national companies and other entities that need a small number of voice lines at a large number of disparate, often suburban, rural and remote locations where facilities-based competition with the ILEC is uneconomical," said a filing posted Thursday. It was from Access Point, Birch Communications, BullsEye Telecom, Manhattan Telecommunications, Matrix Telecom, New Horizon Communications and Xchange Telecom. Without competitive service from the wholesale platform, customers would have no alternative to the ILEC, they said.