Flowroute Objects to Comcast Limited Waiver Bid on Rural Call Reporting Rules
Flowroute urged the FCC to deny a Comcast waiver bid seeking limited relief from recordkeeping, retention and reporting rules under a 2013 rural call completion order (see 1609160017). Flowroute, which says it's a "SIP telecom provider" and CLEC, said it…
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agreed with NTCA (see 1609260055) that Comcast hadn't shown good cause for a waiver, and shouldn't get a "free pass" from correcting violations due to "an administrative oversight" and network migration issues. "Comcast does not claim that it cannot correct its violations, or even that it would be extremely burdensome to do so. Its only justification for a waiver amounts to 'trust us, retroactive compliance does not matter because everything was working fine and should be working properly now,'" said a Flowroute filing Wednesday in docket 13-39. "The fact is that Comcast’s failure to 'account for the complexity of [its own] current network structure' resulted in Comcast being unable to comply with the Commission’s requirements for over a year." Granting the waiver would give Comcast "an excuse to avoid questions with respect to its call completion and network management practices," Flowroute said. Comcast didn't comment.