Verizon Presses FCC to Resolve Copper Retirement, Service Discontinuance Issues
Verizon urged the FCC to act quickly on copper retirement and telecom service discontinuance issues raised in a wireline broadband infrastructure deployment rulemaking. "While we encourage the Commission to promptly resolve all of the items in the Notice, it may…
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be possible to address questions relating to these two areas on a standalone basis," said a filing Thursday in docket 17-84 on a meeting with Wireline Bureau staffers. Verizon asked the FCC to simplify copper retirements by reducing the public notice period to 90 days when there are customers and 30 days when there aren't, with notices for customers tied to their migration date. It asked for streamlining notifications of interconnecting entities, requiring notice "only for entities who directly interconnect with the incumbent LEC’s network and purchase circuits or provide services on the copper being retired."