USTelecom Opposes Request for FCC to Reconsider ILEC Switched-Access Relief
USTelecom opposed a business group's petition asking the FCC to revisit a ruling granting incumbent telcos nondominant treatment of their interstate switched-access services connecting local callers to long-distance networks. The petition of the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Group "is late-filed,…
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and thus should be dismissed with prejudice on procedural grounds," said USTelecom in opposition in docket 13-3. "Moreover, Ad Hoc raises no new facts or changed circumstances that have not already been considered by the Commission." Ad Hoc said the FCC provided ILECs relief despite its "failure to finalize access rate regulations for toll-free originating access minutes" (see 1608240045).