Federal Communications Commission FCC 12-153
STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL
Re: Special Access for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers, WC Docket No. 05-25; AT&T 
Corporation Petition for Rulemaking to Reform Regulation of Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier 
Rates for Interstate Special Access Services, RM-10593
I am pleased that today we begin the long-overdue process of collecting the data we need to reform 
our special access rules. 
As I said in August when I supported suspending our pricing flexibility triggers, our special access 
rules would benefit from a fresh look.  Large and small businesses and institutions rely on these high-
capacity dedicated services to meet their voice and communications needs.  But the pricing flexibility 
triggers we had in place for more than a decade were a poor proxy for competitive conditions in a 
geographic market.  In some circumstances they were overinclusive, while in others they were 
underinclusive.  This led a wide variety of interests, including the Small Business Administration, the 
Government Accountability Office, the American Petroleum Institute, and wireline and wireless carriers 
to call for reform of our special access rules.  
Through the data collection and rulemaking we initiate today, it is my hope that we can lay the 
foundation for a new system that promotes competition, investment, and deployment of high-capacity 
services across the country.