BRESNAN WANTS FCC TO HOLD CENTURYTEL TO WHOLESALING PROMISES

摘要

The FCC should make CenturyTel promise better service to wholesale customers to gain approval of its takeover of Embarq, said Bresnan Communications, which competes with CenturyTel in Montana and Colorado. Embarq and CenturyTel have said they will deal with problems, but Bresnan wants the FCC to enforce the commitment. Bresnan said it has had problems with CenturyTel because the incumbent hasn't put enough resources into wholesale. "As a facilities-based provider, all Bresnan needs from CenturyTel is access to customer information in order to submit a local service request to port telephone numbers and for CenturyTel to disconnect its lines without disrupting the customer's service," Bresnan said. "Yet these routine functions have been the source of extraordinary delay."