ALTS Calls On FCC To Create Rapid Response Team to Address the Issues Raised by the Remand to the FCC On Equipment That Qualifies for Collocation.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 The Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS ALTS Association for Local Telecommunications Services ALTS Aarhus Lawn Tennis Selskab (Denmark) ALTS Annotated Labeled Transition System ALTS Analogue Line Terminating Subsystem ALTS Automatic Laser Tracking System ) today sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) asking for the creation of a rapid response task force to address the issues raised by the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). Circuit Court's remand to the FCC on equipment that qualifies for collocation. "In light of the D.C. Circuit's decision on GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , which vacated some of the FCC's pro-competitive collocation rules, ALTS calls on the FCC to create a collocation rapid-response team similar to the one implemented following the AT&T v. Iowa Utilities Board decision," said John D. Windhausen, Jr., President of ALTS, the nation's leading organization representing facilities-based CLECs. "ALTS members are already encountering ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. reluctance to allow efficient, timely and cost-effective collocation, consistent with the FCC's Collocation Order, following the D.C. Circuit's decision." "The rapid-response team should include the same types of mechanisms as the UNE remand rapid-response procedures, including obtaining commitments from ILECs to continue to adhere to the FCC's collocation rules as they existed prior to the issuance of the GTE decision, and providing a high level FCC contact to act as a liaison between ILECs and CLECs in collocation disputes," said Jonathan Askin, ALTS' General Counsel. "Implementation of a collocation rapid-response system will ensure that no disruption in the roll-out of competitive services occurs pending reconsideration of the FCC's collocation rules. Furthermore, we encourage the FCC Common Carrier Bureau to move forward expeditiously with its Reconsideration Order to the Collocation Rules in order to provide further clarification and direction on collocation matters and to promote competition." ALTS is the leading national industry association whose mission is to promote facilities-based local telecommunications competition. Created in 1987, ALTS has offices in Washington, D.C. and Irvine, California and now represents more than 200 companies that build, own, and operate competitive local networks. For more information on ALTS, contact Crawford Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most at 703-318-5460 or visit www.alts.org. |
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