FCC Comr. Abernathy said the FCC appears on track to vote on UNE-...
FCC Comr. Abernathy said the FCC appears on track to vote on UNE-P rules at its Dec. 15 meeting. “That’s certainly our intent,” she said Wed. at a press breakfast. Abernathy confirmed that some issues raised in petitions for…
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consideration, such as line sharing and mass market definitions, won’t be part of the order. “There was a discussion internally about how broad do we make this item,” Abernathy said: “Do we deal just with the issues that have been sent back to us by the court or do we try and bring in all the other issues that have been brought up in all of the petitions for reconsideration of our prior decision? The decision was we've got a very concrete deadline and a need to respond to the court.” The FCC needed to draw a line, she said: “If we try to bring in everything that was raised on recon this will not happen” in Dec. Sources said the Bells would still be required to make their high-capacity DS-1 loops and transport available to competitors as TELRIC-priced UNEs under the draft order. However, CLECs would have to show they were “impaired,” meaning they didn’t have any wholesale alternatives for DS-1 loops on a building-by- building basis. The test for transport impairment would be based on the number of lines in wire centers. An FCC source said it might be better to handle line sharing and market definitions as separate orders.