Bandwidth Opposes AT&T's Application to Stop Providing DS3 Services
Cloud communications company Bandwidth opposed AT&T’s petition at the FCC to stop accepting applications for special access DS3 services wherever they’re still offered to new customers throughout the company’s 21-state legacy wireline footprint (see 2508180039). Bandwidth said that if the service ends, there’s “no reasonable substitute available” for time-division multiplexing, particularly for 911 call centers. Comments on the application were due Friday, and Bandwidth was the only company to file.
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AT&T’s application is subject “to the Commission’s standards for discontinuance, reduction, and impairment of services,” said the filing posted Monday in docket 25-254. “These standards require consideration of financial impacts of providing the service; the need for the service; the need for the specific facilities in question; the availability of alternative services; and the potential for increased costs for substitute services.” The AT&T application “fails this analysis,” Bandwidth said.