AT&T Hits Comcast Proposal for Special Access

摘要

AT&T accused Comcast of hypocrisy. The cable company had asked the FCC to eliminate nspecial-access rules, so competitive telcos can charge the same access rates as used for nincumbents' termination of conventional phone services, as long as the CLEC provides a nphone number from the number portability database. “The implication of this proposal is that nas long as a CLEC provides the telephone number, it’s safe to conclude that the CLEC nprovides a service equivalent to all of the other functions –- and the associated costs -- nincluded in access charges,” AT&T Vice President Hank Hultquist said on his company’s nwebsite.