The FCC agreed with a complaint by Core Communications alleging that Verizon had violated the Communications Act and Commission rules by failing to interconnect with Core on reasonable terms. The FCC found that Verizon delayed for four months interconnecting with Core in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area, and also failed to provide Core with critical information about the delay and its expected duration. The delay occurred because Verizon allowed the capacity of certain crucial pieces of equipment within its network to exhaust and to remain at exhaust for an extended period. Core Communications may now file a supplemental complaint against Verizon for damages resulting from the violationhttp://www.fcc.govhttp://www.corecomm.us
- Last week, the FCC found SBC Communications and its nine incumbent local exchange affiliates in violation of an order issued in conjunction with the SBC/Ameritech merge. The FCC action arose following a complaint by two CLECs, Core Communications and Z-Tel Communications, who said SBC refused to allow their use of a shared transport unbundled network element needed for transporting intraLATA toll calls.