USTelecom, Incompas Reach Line Access Compromise

The telecom and competitive networks industries reached agreement on whether and how much access LECs need to provide to DS0, DS1, DS3 and operation support systems. USTelecom and Incompas said Thursday the agreement covers numerous interested CLECs and ILECs, and that it's a compromise between the sides. In a filing in FCC docket 19-308, they urged a draft order incorporating the compromise and laid out specifics. They said its dual non-impairment/forbearance approach increases the odds that such an order would be affirmed if appealed. They said the compromise is outside some of what they previously advocated, but it's within the FCC discretion and supported by the record. They said the commission has the authority to also craft a transitional period.