Pa. PUC has given Verizon until April 20 to accept all terms and ...
Pa. PUC has given Verizon until April 20 to accept all terms and conditions of last week’s functional separation order. To promote development of local competition, PUC is requiring creation of functionally separate wholesale and retail local service divisions…
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within Verizon’s current Pa. operating company. If Verizon rejects plan, agency “reserves the right” to consider full breakup into 2 separate business units. PUC spokesman said goal was to have functional separation order fully implemented by end of this year, with timeline for interim steps to be developed in workshop sessions between PUC and Verizon after carrier accepts decision. PUC staff expects to publish full text of March 22 decision within 2 weeks. Additional conditions in order include requirement that Verizon open its remote digital loop carrier terminals to competing providers of digital subscriber line (DSL) services, participate in monthly sessions with PUC and CLECs to monitor its wholesale DSL provisioning and withdraw its appeals of all issues from 1999 Global Competition order except structural separation, which is pending before state Supreme Court.