International Center Urges FCC to Change Copper Retirement Rules
The International Center for Law & Economics urged the FCC last week to move forward on proposals to speed the retirement of legacy copper phone lines. Commissioners agreed to take comment on ways to speed retirements in an NPRM approved last month (see 2507280053).
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“Newer, superior technology has replaced older, inferior technology in the provision of voice services,” said the center's filing Friday in docket 25-208. The commission’s rules on network changes and service discontinuances “impose significant transaction costs and create a deadweight loss on the U.S. economy by artificially inflating the cost of migrating from inefficient, deteriorating copper networks to superior, next-generation IP-based infrastructure.”