O'Rielly Pleased FCC Taking Fresh Look at USTelecom ILEC Nondominance Bid
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly welcomed an FCC request for additional comments on a 2012 USTelecom petition for ILEC nondominance on certain services (see 1601210066). "Although refreshing the record is likely to confirm [what] we already know, I’m pleased that the…
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ball is finally starting to roll on this item as it should allow the Commission to move to final action of providing the requested and appropriate relief very soon. I hope commenters will focus on the petition before the Commission and not esoteric issues, views or concerns," O’Rielly said in a statement Thursday. USTelecom had asked that incumbent telcos be declared "no longer presumptively dominant when providing interstate mass market and enterprise switched access services," said a Wireline Bureau public notice earlier Thursday in docket 13-3. Comments are due Feb. 22, replies March 7.