Dobson Asks to Withdraw Discontinuance Application, Saying Approval Isn't Needed

Dobson Telephone asked to withdraw an application filed last week seeking to discontinue three varieties of legacy wholesale telecommunications services in Oklahoma. “Upon further review, and in light of the Commission’s 2017 Order in Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, Dobson Telephone has determined that Commission approval is not required for its proposed discontinuance,” said an undocketed filing posted Wednesday. Dobson’s “affected services are provided solely on a wholesale basis to carrier-customers, and thus fall within the wholesale exception clarified by the Commission for upstream carriers.”