WB Denies CenturyLink Emergency Discon Late Filing

The FCC Wireline Bureau denied CenturyLink's application for emergency impairment of its wireline telecom services and "other real-time two-way voice communications services" in areas of Mound City, Missouri, due to "severe flooding that damaged its facilities and caused a service outage" March 15, 2019, said a public notice posted in Monday's Daily Digest. The bureau also denied CenturyLink's request for a waiver of the 65-day filing deadline because it "became aware of the deficiencies in its internal tracking system over a year ago and could have exercised diligence at that time to ensure that other outages necessitating emergency discontinuance applications had not occurred." CenturyLink, now Lumen, "provides no indication that it took prompt steps to address the outage" as it did for a 2020 outage in Michigan, the notice said. Lumen didn't comment.