ADT Objects to FCC Draft 'Elimination' of Adequate Replacement Test in Voice Discontinuances
ADT Security Services is concerned about an FCC draft order's "effective elimination of the adequate replacement test when [ILECs] discontinue legacy voice service." Incumbent telcos would have the option of forgoing that test, which they say is overly burdensome, if…
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they replace traditional TDM-based voice service with interconnected VoIP service, and another facilities-based voice service, including wireless, is available, said the company's filing posted Thursday in docket 17-84. "There's no requirement that either replacement service will be interoperable or compatible with key applications and functions, such as a consumer’s existing alarm or home health monitoring service," ADT said. It backs the migration to advanced network technologies and services, but said the agency's "long-held policy of ensuring that the transition does not harm consumers is being eroded by the ever more expedient processes designed to alleviate proposed burdens" on incumbent telcos. It asked the FCC to revise the draft "to require that either the ILEC’s replacement interconnected VoIP service or the other facilities-based voice service on which the ILEC intends to rely to qualify for streamlining[,] be interoperable and compatible with critical safety applications such as alarm and home medical monitoring services." The discontinuance draft is on the June 7 meeting tentative agenda and sparked disagreements (see 1805170060 and 1805180067).