Qwest Offers its own UNE-P Proposal

Qwest Communications is proposing a new regulatory scheme that it says would help the industry shift from the UNE-P resale paradigm to facilities-based competition. The Qwest proposal would eliminate the unbundled switching requirement in areas where multiple CLECs have deployed their own switches. Where there are three or more CLEC switches within a geographic area known as a LATA, the switching requirement would be removed promptly. The Qwest proposal also establishes a role for state regulatory commissions to determine the transition timetable for eliminating unbundled switching as a UNE in all other remaining areas. In LATAs where there are fewer than three such CLEC switches, the state commissions, interpreting the guidelines established by the FCC, would look at additional factors to determine reasonable timetables to remove switching. The proposal has been filed with the FCC.
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