Even after completion of the IP transition, the...
Even after completion of the IP transition, the wholesale wireline provisions of the Communications Act will continue to be necessary and important, Comptel told an aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Regardless of the technology used, “access to consumers is…
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required” to ensure competition isn’t stifled, Comptel said. “It is not economically viable for competitors to replicate the ILEC network in its entirety,” the association of competitive providers said. “Competitors must supplement their reach” by “purchasing from large ILECs wholesale last mile access,” it said. The commission could speed the IP transition by “confirming that IP interconnection for voice services falls under Sections 251 and 252 of the Act,” Comptel said.