FCC Says Any Objections to Sprint Wireline Long Distance Departure Are Due Sept. 3
Any objections to Sprint's plan to discontinue long distance service to wireline consumers should be filed by Sept. 3, the FCC Wireline Bureau said in a public notice Wednesday in docket 15-186. Sprint announced its plan June 19 to stop…
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providing the service Sept. 19 (see 1506190036), and the FCC said it would be allowed to do so, absent further commission action. "The Commission normally will authorize proposed discontinuances of service unless it is shown that customers or other end users would be unable to receive service or a reasonable substitute from another carrier, or that the public convenience and necessity would be otherwise adversely affected," the bureau said.