The FCC commissioners should review a Wireline Bureau decision ap...
The FCC commissioners should review a Wireline Bureau decision approving compliance plans by AT&T, Verizon and Qwest, Sprint Nextel said Tuesday. The companies had to get bureau approval of the plans to satisfy a condition in forbearance orders granting…
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them relief from cost-assignment rules (CD Jan 5 p1). “Because the decision was announced without any analysis or explanation, we believe it requires the full review of the commission,” a Sprint spokesman said. His company or another opponent of cost-assignment forbearance could file a formal request for review soon, he said. Multiple reconsideration petitions on the forbearance orders are at the FCC. Opponents want to keep the ball in the air until more sympathetic commissioners take over, a wireline industry official said. Opponents would probably be less likely to file such a request if a harsher FCC were expected, the source said. The Wireline Bureau approval makes it tougher for Sprint and other opponents to overturn the original forbearance orders, the official said. Once rules are carried out and new processes put in place, they will be harder to rewind, the official said.