Comcast filed a Notice of Appeal of a Maine PUC...
Comcast filed a Notice of Appeal of a Maine PUC order requiring it and Time Warner Cable to seek certificates of public convenience from the PUC in order to offer interconnected VoIP services, a court document said. The appeal was…
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filed with the PUC, which certifies the Notice and forwards it to the court with the rest of the administrative record. The appeal will be considered by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Comcast claimed the PUC Order is “predicated on several errors of both Maine and federal law.” The commission erred by holding that VoIP is a telephone service subject to public utility regulation, it said. The agency also mistakenly held that state public utility regulation isn’t preempted by the federal Communications Act, it said. Additionally, the PUC neglected established law holding that federal law can preempt state regulation of communications services where the provision of intra- and inter-state services are intertwined, as they are in Comcast’s VoIP service, it said.