Qwest will follow the same approach as AT&T and Verizon in giving...
Qwest will follow the same approach as AT&T and Verizon in giving the FCC usable accounting data upon agency request once an order granting the Bell forbearance on cost- assignment rules takes effect, Qwest said. The carrier filed its…
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compliance plan Wednesday. AT&T and Verizon, granted the same relief, also submitted plans (CD Sept 24 p7). The Wireline Bureau hasn’t acted on them. Sprint Nextel, a critic of the AT&T and Verizon plans, went after the new one, too. “The Qwest submission is more of the same and … should be rejected outright,” a spokesman for the wireless carrier said Thursday. “Under this plan, Qwest would have the sole discretion to update the cost accounting ratios,” opening the door for data manipulation, he said. “Given … the history of anti-competitive behavior from Qwest as well as AT&T and Verizon, it stretches the imagination to conceive of any scenario where approving this plan would be good for competition and benefit consumers.”