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Windstream Disputes Verizon's Claims in USTelecom Forbearance Petition

Windstream told the FCC Verizon mischaracterized Windstream's position regarding the telco's transition agreement with USTelecom in docket 18-141 on the association's forbearance petition. The telco group wants relief from a requirement that ILECs unbundle and resell access to some of…

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their networks to CLECs (see 1905060025). Windstream previously withdrew an earlier objection to the forbearance petition, it noted, posted Friday, but it "never suggested that our agreement is tantamount to concurrence that competition is robust, or even present" in markets where Windstream purchases unbundled network elements. Replies on the petition are due Tuesday (see 1905150007). Verizon didn't comment right away.