NARUC’s Network Issues Study Committee presented group with preli...
NARUC’s Network Issues Study Committee presented group with preliminary look at what it said were 7 challenges to state regulation in near future. Study group representatives said key challenges facing states included: (1) Physical bypass of public switched network…
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by satellite, cable, wireless and electric grid telephony. (2) Possible technology-driven changes in existing system of dual jurisdiction that could affect states’ ability to protect consumers. (3) Telecom market concentration through mergers, acquisitions and other types of consolidation that could diminish ability of states to carry out their duties to protect competitors and public. (4) Impact of Bell company Sec. 271 long distance entry on local and long distance competition. (5) Impact of Internet telephony on incumbents’ network cost recovery and on network reliability. (6) Changes in intercarrier compensation methods in order to promote efficiency, competition, infrastructure development. (7) Impact of packet switched services on providing and regulating telecom services traditionally supplied over circuit-switched networks. Report outlined trends, goals and tools regulators could use in addressing each challenge.