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This Issue:
FCC Extends
Wireless LNP Deadline One Year
A
win for wireless carriers and a cause of frustration for consumer
groups, the FCC last week delayed the wireless local number portability
deadline by one year to November 24, 2003. The delay provides carriers
more time to offer number portability that allows consumers to switch
carriers without switching mobile phone numbers. [More].
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FCC Adopts
Rules on How Phone Companies Share Customer Information
The
FCC last week adopted rules resolving how telecommunications companies
share and market customer proprietary network information (CPNI).
CPNI includes almost all individually identifiable information regarding
customers' phone use including to what services they subscribe,
and to whom, when and where they call. [More]
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CLECs
Voice Concern Over Recent FCC Comments
ALTS
and CompTel sent a letter to FCC Chairman Powell late last week
indicating they were "extremely concerned" by recent remarks
made by Powell and Commissioner Abernathy that blamed the current
state of the telecommunications industry on "excessive entry
by competitors into local markets." The companies have asked
the FCC to issue a letter reaffirming their commitment to its "core
responsibility" of opening local markets to competition. They
have also asked for a freeze of the triennial review of UNE proceeding,
the wireline broadband proceeding and the proceeding regarding broadband
non-dominance." [Top of Page]
Local
Competition & Broadband Reports, Forms
The
FCC released summary statistics of its latest data on local telephone
service competition and on the deployment of high-speed connections
to the Internet. The data indicate that end-user customers obtained
local telephone service over some 173 million incumbent local exchange
carrier (ILEC) switched access lines, almost 20 million competitive
local exchange carrier (CLEC) switched access lines, and about 122
million mobile wireless telephone service subscriptions. Meanwhile,
high-speed connections to the Internet increase 33 percent during
the second half of 2001 for a total of 12.8 million lines.
[More]
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