FCC Should Address 'Patently Unreasonable' Special Access Contract Provisions, CLECs Argue

摘要

The FCC should bear down hard on incumbent providers of special access services, said CLECsnand purchasers in response to the long-awaited order seeking data on the state of the special access marketplacen(CD Dec 19 p1). ILECs have long abused their monopoly positions at the cost of competitivenproviders and their customers, and now is the chance for the commission to step in and declare invalid thenILECs' exclusionary contract provisions, CLECs argued. ILECs defended their contracts, and urged thencommission to dismiss CLEC arguments over the relevancy of legacy Time-division multiplexing-basednservices. In any market analysis, the commission must recognize that consumers are moving away fromnlegacy special access services toward IP-based broadband services, they said. “Dial-up era talking pointsnhave no place in today’s gigabit-per-second world,” said CenturyLink.