OMB Clears FCC Information Collection in Copper Retirement Disclosure
The Office of Management and Budget approved three years of FCC information collection on "network change disclosure rules pertaining to copper retirement notices" flowing from an IP/tech transition order (docket 13-5), said a summary of a commission rule published in…
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the Federal Register Thursday, the effective date of the rule. The order, adopted in August, requires ILECs to notify customers and interconnecting carriers and ISPs about planned retirement of copper lines -- including “de facto retirement” -- and to seek permission when they plan changes that discontinue traditional services to retail end users, including of CLECs (see 1508100019).