Telco Access Alert is a regular update of new and ongoing telecommunications regulatory proceedings at the state and federal levels.

FCC / INTERSTATE ACCESS CHARGE PROCEEDINGS

Compiled by Andrew Regitsky, President, Regitsky & Associates
New in December 2012

FCC Docket 05-25 – Special Access Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Remember, back on August 22, 2012, the FCC released a Report and Order (Order) in Docket 05-25 temporarily suspending new grants of special access pricing flexibility to ILECs, while it conducted a market analysis into how special access should be priced in the future. The Commission stated at that time that within 60 days it would release a comprehensive special access data request to begin the analysis. Well better late than never! Unsurprisingly, the Commission failed to issue the data request within 60 days, but finally did so on December 18, 2012. Along with the data request, the Commission issued a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) seeking industry comments on the ...

United States Telecom Association (USTA) – Petition for Ruling that ILECs are Non-Dominant in Switched Voice Services

Speaking of 2013, one petition that is likely to spur industry debate in the new year and beyond is a December 19, 2012 Petition by USTA seeking to begin a dialogue regarding the removal of "archaic" regulation for ILEC plain old telephone service (POTS). The association contends that as more and more households use VoIP and wireless services for their everyday communications needs, it is patently unfair to ILEC s that ...

For the complete text of the FCC updates, view this PDF.