The FCC has another reason to oppose Verizon forbearance petition...
The FCC has another reason to oppose Verizon forbearance petitions for 6 East Coast cities (CD March 6 p1), 4 competitive providers told the agency, citing “Verizon’s misuse of confidential information.” The competitors told the FCC “the supporting data……
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includes E-911 listings disclosed to the Commission by Verizon in violation of federal and state laws.” Verizon was the E-911 PSAP in 5 of the 6 cities, and until March 2005 had that role in the 6th, Virginia Beach, the competitors said. As PSAP, Verizon had access to competitive providers’ confidential information, the companies said: “In those five MSAs, Verizon’s competitors have entrusted it, pursuant to confidential treatment, with sensitive proprietary data, i.e., their customers’ names and contact information. Verizon relies, to a significant extent, on information culled from the E911 databases to support all six of its petitions.” Verizon’s filings also rely on a “framework” the FCC used in approving a similar forbearance petition involving Qwest in Omaha but “interested parties have been denied the right to use the unredacted Omaha Forbearance Order to analyze and respond to Verizon’s claims,” they said in comments filed Mon. “Moreover, this data does not accurately reflect the nature and scope of competition within the wire centers for which forbearance is requested by Verizon,” they said. The comments were filed by Broadview Networks, Covad, NuVox and XO Communications. In Oct. 15 CLECs filed a motion to dismiss the Verizon forbearance petitions based on the use of confidential data.