Comptel request for FCC to act on long-term 'lock down' special access contract 'unlawful'
Comptel’s request for the FCC to act on long-term “lock down” special access contracts 1409230002 “would be both unlawful and a waste of resources” before the FCC finishes its special access data collection effort, AT&T said in a letter to…
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the agency, posted as an ex parte filing in docket 05-25 Monday (http://bit.ly/1veijSq). “The competing carriers have a good reason for trying to jump the gun on the Commission’s data collection: the real-world data will undoubtedly show that these carriers have many marketplace alternatives,” AT&T said. Requiring a re-write of the contracts would be illegal, AT&T said, because “the type of terms and conditions attacked by complaining carriers are common both in the industry and in competitive industries throughout the country.”