FCC Wants to Review Verizon's Fire Island Petition More Closely, Could Be Proxy for IP Transition Fight, Sources Say

摘要

The FCC Wireline Bureau decision to not “automatically”ngrant Verizon’s Communications Act Section 214 petition (CDnAug 15 p1) to discontinue domestic phone services indicates that itnwants to review the application more closely, likely pushing a decisionnuntil after Tom Wheeler is confirmed as chairman, said industrynobservers and interested parties in interviews Thursday.nSome applauded the FCC decision because it allows more time fornthe New York Public Service Commission to make its own judgmentnand for others to act in the public interest.