Minnesota Urges FCC Ruling That ILECs Provide Unbundled Service on DS1, DS3 Loops
The FCC should confirm ILECs’ obligation to provide unbundled DS1 and DS3 capacity loops to competitors, said the Minnesota Department of Commerce (MNDOC). In an ex parte letter dated Monday, the department supported other states that have filed in docket…
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15-1, including Massachusetts, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Vermont (see 1603140070). “The MNDOC urges the Commission to issue a ruling confirming that ILECs’ ongoing obligations to provide DS1 and DS3 capacity loops on an unbundled basis are not affected by the replacement of copper with fiber, or the conversion of transmission from TDM to IP format,” it said. Such a ruling would promote competition, it said. A flurry of filings from ILECs and CLECs have disagreed about market data analysis and possible further FCC regulation of ILEC broadband services in the FCC’s special access review (see 1603280027).