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Part II: Special Access Gains Traction

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Aspiring to be the underdog in an unfair fight. For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telephone companies’ use of “demand lock-up” arrangements in the market for special access services. Using their dominance to maintain their dominance, these incumbents require their customers to, in order to get the incumbents’ best rates, commit [...]

The FCC’s Special Access Order: A Good First Step, But More Can Be Done.

We applaud the FCC for taking an initial step towards fixing the broken and non-competitive special access market by suspending further price flex petitions and by moving forward with mandatory data requests to gather additional information so that working rules can be established. The incumbent phone companies will cry foul respecting the suspension of granting [...]

If We Build It, They Can’t Come

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For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telcos use of “demand lock up” arrangements in the market for special access services.  The incumbent phone companies use and maintain their dominance in the special access market to demand that their customers commit to buy as much as 90 percent or more of their [...]