If the Maine Public Utilities Commission accepts a staff recommendation...
If the Maine Public Utilities Commission accepts a staff recommendation on which initial public comments were due Tuesday, Time Warner Cable Digital Phone and Comcast Phone would have to request interexchange carrier status for their VoIP networks in the state.…
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The commission staff found both operations to be telephone services under Maine law, and so subject to commission regulation. That conclusion is not preempted by federal law, the staff said May 18 upon completing an inquiry begun in 2008. Both companies have argued that if the agency embraces this conclusion it would violate state legislators’ intent. Comcast Phone is certified as a competitive local exchange carrier in Maine. Time Warner Cable, which doesn’t have CLEC status there, buys wholesale telecom services from CRC Communications of Maine.