Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg issued a public call to the FCC to "restore the link between rational economics and investment in technology." Seidenberg said Verizon is one of the few companies with the scale, the capital capacity, and the will to move the needle on the broadband speedometer. With the right regulatory changes, Verizon would be willing "to step on the gas." Specifically, Seidenberg called on the FCC to adopt the following national standards:
- Eliminate unbundling for high-speed, high-capacity data connections
- Remove switching from the list of required unbundled elements
- Eliminate the requirement to provide business UNE-P (unbundled network elements platform)
- Transition away from UNE-P in the residential market
- Refrain from extending the UNE regime to already competitive special access services
- Prevent old telephony rules from being applied to
- Next week, the FCC is expected to issue new rules for unbundled network elements (UNEs).
- Representing the opposing view, AT&T's Chairman, David Dorman, last week warned that landmark policy changes now being considered at the FCC could change the telecom landscape for decades. http://www.convergedigest.com/Bandwidth/newnetworksarticle.asp?ID=6268
