CenturyLink Argues for Forbearance
CenturyLink faces tariffing and network-sharing obligations that have never applied to nonincumbents, Melissa Newman, senior vice president-federal policy and regulatory affairs, and Wilkinson Barker’s Bryan Tramont told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Dec. 15, according to an ex parte…
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filing posted Wednesday in docket 14-9. CenturyLink is seeking forbearance from those regulations. Other larger and smaller incumbents have received forbearance from the obligations, CenturyLink said, arguing the “disparity places CenturyLink in an extremely difficult position as it seeks to win and retain enterprise customers requiring service to multiple premises.”