SBC Estimates New UNE-p Losses at $500M through 2005

SBC Communications estimates new UNE-p rules contained in the recently released Triennial Review order could cost the company an additional $500 million in lost revenue by the end of 2005. SBC said the new rules could allow competitors to access the company's high-capacity lines (EELs, or enhanced extended links) in order to avoid paying access charges and allow wireless phone companies, for the first time, to purchase network components at below-cost prices. SBC, the U.S. Telecom Association (USTA), Verizon Communications, BellSouth and Qwest Communications have asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. to stop the enactment of new rules.


Paul K. Mancini, SBC's senior vice president and assistant general counsel, said "All these rules are clearly illegal and they will have a harmful effect, not only on telecommunications providers like SBC, but on the economy as a whole."http://www.sbc.com