Examples of Transferring Companies in a sentence
Because its members are competitors and wholesale customers of the Transferring Companies, COMPTEL, acting on behalf of its members,2 is a party in interest with standing to comment on these applications for transfer of control of licenses and authorizations.
COMPTEL members compete directly with Verizon in the provision of wireline and wireless voice, high speed data and video services to end users by using their own network facilities; by employing a combination of their own facilities and network infrastructure purchased from other providers, including the Transferring Companies; and/or through the resale of facilities and services obtained from other providers, including the Transferring Companies.
At The Very Least, The Commission Must Impose Conditions To Ensure That Competition And The Many Customers Benefiting From Competition Are Not Negatively Impacted By The Transaction With the acquisition of the Transferring Companies, the number of retail and wholesale customers receiving wireline service from Frontier will increase significantly.
As the Commission has recognized, transactions such as this one can threaten the continued existence of competition, eliminate competitors and/or create opportunities to disadvantage rivals in anticompetitive ways.10 Competitors have been able to provide a choice in services and service providers in the geographic areas served by the Transferring Companies based in part on their ability to obtain unbundled network elements (“UNEs”) and other wholesale inputs from Verizon.
It is also possible that other Verizon affiliates, such as Verizon Enterprise Solutions, will continue to operate in the areas served by the Transferring Companies.
Frontier contends that it and Verizon have “in place a plan for the transition of customers, OSS, and billing systems so that neither retail nor wholesale customers will experience service, ordering, or billing disruptions.”31 The only specificity provided about the transition plan is the following:Post-closing, the operations of the Transferring Companies will be converted to Frontier’s existing OSS and billing systems, which will allow Frontier to go to market promptly in the acquired areas.
The Commission must take steps to ensure that neither the wholesale customers and competitors of the Transferring Companies nor service to their end users will be adversely affected simply because of the change in ownership from Verizon to Frontier.
Any approval of this transaction must also be subject to enforceable conditions that will safeguard competitors’ contractual and statutory rights to wholesale inputs that they need to serve their end users and that will ensure that they are not penalized financially when ownership of the Transferring Companies passes from Verizon to Frontier.
COMPTEL’s wireless members purchase backhaul transport facilities from the Transferring Companies and its wireline members compete with the Transferring Companies in the provision of backhaul transport facilities to wireless service providers.
Operations Support Systems (“OSS”) and Wholesale Customer Service Frontier’s Application is very short on details about how it plans to transition the operations of the Transferring Companies and Verizon’s wholesale customers to its existing operations support systems (“OSS”) and billing systems at closing.