Verizon Seeks Current Discontinuance Process as Option, Touts NIST Cyber Guidance
Verizon urged the FCC to keep its current discontinuance process available for carriers if it creates a new process for discontinuing legacy telecom services to facilitate technology transitions. "We urged the Commission that any additional criteria it considers in the…
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context of discontinuances related to technology transitions should be limited to the proposed streamlined process for discontinuing voice services. Providers should continue to have the option of using the existing process in all circumstances," said a Verizon filing Thursday in docket 13-5 on meetings with aides to Commissioners Mike O'Rielly and Mignon Clyburn. The telco also said the commission shouldn't require cybersecurity certifications as a condition for the streamlined track. Another recent Verizon filing elaborated: "As both the Chairman and the National Institute for Standards and Technology have recognized, a one-size-fits-all approach -- particularly one involving proscriptive regulations -- is not the best way to address cybersecurity concerns. Establishing cybersecurity guidance on a provider-by-provider or, where discontinuance applications cover a small geographic area, region-by-region basis is unworkable and inefficient." In that filing, Verizon said AT&T's proposal for a 2025 sunset date for an interoperability criterion is too far in the future.