CLECs Voice Concerns About FCC Access-Stimulation NPRM, Cite Free-Conferencing Benefits
CLECs expressed concerns about an FCC access-stimulation NPRM and "unsupported allegations and factual omissions" in comments and replies of interexchange carriers and centralized equal access providers. Concerns include "how quickly" the FCC moved, "lack of post-Connect America Fund Order data…
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and evidence" guiding access-stimulation proposals, and how a recent Aureon (Iowa Network Services) tariff order (see 1807310061) "resolved many" disputed issues and made agency proposals "unnecessary," said a filing Thursday in docket 18-155 on meetings the CEOs of Northern Valley Communications, Great Lakes Communication and BTC (Western Iowa Networks) had with an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr and Wireline Bureau Chief Kris Monteith and aides. They cited "benefits that high volume services have provided" the CLECs and others. Free-conferencing services help consumers, and "the revenues obtained from access stimulation allow each access-stimulating CLEC to support their respective rural economies and deploy broadband services," the filing said.