FCC Denies GCI Request to Undo ILEC Equal Access, Dialing Parity Relief in Rural Alaska
FCC staff denied a General Communication Inc. reconsideration petition seeking a targeted reversal of a commission decision to forbear nationally from applying long-distance "equal access and dialing parity" duties to incumbent telcos. GCI sought a carve-out for "rural" Alaska (see…
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1601280031). Alaska Communications and USTelecom filed oppositions (see 1602090059). "GCI's Petition is procedurally barred because of its failure to present an adequate justification for relying on new arguments and facts," said a Wireline Bureau order in docket 14-192 in Thursday's Daily Digest. Noting GCI hadn't participated in the original forbearance proceeding, the bureau wrote: "The crux of GCI’s argument is that the Order failed to adequately consider the particular long-distance telecommunications needs of rural Alaskans. But neither GCI nor any other party previously presented arguments concerning the specific needs of rural Alaskans to the Commission." GCI declined to comment Thursday.