TelePacific cited legal precedent to the FCC Friday...
TelePacific cited legal precedent to the FCC Friday as a followup to its June 25 meeting with Wireline Bureau officials on its petition for partial reconsideration of the 2012 Wholesaler-Reseller Clarification Order (http://bit.ly/13UJBku). “Courts have found USF contributions to be…
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inequitable and discriminatory in violation of Section 254(d) where one type of carrier is put at a distinct competitive disadvantage compared with another type of carrier with no reasonable explanation for the disparity,” TelePacific said. In TelePacific’s case, “identical broadband Internet services offered by two carriers, one utilizing its own special access services and one utilizing an underlying carrier’s special access services, result in disparate USF contributions based on the method of delivery of that service,” the carrier said. The commission has provided no rational justification for its “discrimination” between carriers who own the last mile and carriers who don’t, TelePacific said.