T-Mobile told the FCC in a filing how UNE rules should be rewritt...
T-Mobile told the FCC in a filing how UNE rules should be rewritten; wireless carriers need access to high-capacity links at competitive prices in order to provide the kind of intermodal competition often cited by the FCC as a…
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sign of competition. “Despite investing heavily in the deployment of their wireless infrastructure, CMRS providers still must rely on incumbent LEC facilities to provide the connections that link their base stations to their mobile switching centers (MSCs), particularly the facilities connecting their base stations to incumbent LEC central offices,” the carrier said. “Currently, incumbent LECs provide over 95% of those wireline circuits to T-Mobile.” T-Mobile told the Commission it relies on links purchased from ILECs in 3 critical areas: (1) The last-mile link between the base station or cellsite and the ILEC’s central office; (2) interoffice transport connecting incumbent LEC central offices; (3) the link between the MSC and the incumbent LEC wire center serving the MSC. T-Mobile said for each of these elements the FCC should conduct a separate impairment analysis “focusing on the actual deployment of competitive facilities, to determine whether the Communications Act and the FCC’s implementing rules require incumbent LECs to provide competitors unbundled access to those elements at cost-based rates.”