Consolidated Supports Griggs' Petition for ILEC Designation
Consolidated Telcom filed this week in support of a petition to designate Griggs County Telephone Co. the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) for the Leonard and Kindred exchanges in North Dakota. In seeking the ILEC designation in August, Griggs said that after years of “deteriorating service quality and inadequate infrastructure investment by the legacy incumbent CenturyLink, Griggs invested substantially in comprehensive fiber-to-the-premises construction throughout” the exchanges. The network now serves some 95% of wireline subscribers and 66% of total subscribers in the exchanges, it said.
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Consolidated said this week in docket RM-12011 that as a competitive LEC in the state, its “operation has directly experienced the persistent service deficiencies associated with CenturyLink in North Dakota markets.” In communities “including Belfield, CenturyLink’s prolonged lack of investment and declining service quality effectively left customers without reliable wireline service options.”