FCC Invites Input on CenturyLink Request to Discontinue Frame Relay, ATM Services
FCC staff sought comment by Nov. 30 on a CenturyLink application to discontinue certain domestic nondominant carrier telecom services. The covered services are "QCC Frame Relay Service and QCC Asynchronous Transfer Mode [ATM] Service" throughout the 50 states, U.S. possessions…
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and territories, said an appendix to a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 16-383 listed in Wednesday's Daily Digest. On or after Dec. 16, the appendix said, "CenturyLink will no longer offer the Affected Services to new customers or accept new orders from existing customers. In addition, the Affected Services will be grandfathered as follows: 1) Existing contracts for these services will not be renewed; 2) Customers with a contract that expires prior to November 30, 2016 may retain the services covered by that contract on a month-to-month basis until December 16, 2016; 3) Customers with a contract that expires after November 30, 2016 may retain the services covered by that contract until the expiration of that contract."