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A coalition of consumer advocates has “grave concerns” about many aspects...

A coalition of consumer advocates has “grave concerns” about many aspects of the “far-reaching, yet fundamentally flawed” Universal Service Fund/Intercarrier Compensation Order, according to comments filed Wednesday by the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, the Maine Office of…

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the Public Advocate, the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel, and the Utility Reform Network (http://xrl.us/bmt9px). The possible illegality of the order makes it difficult to respond to issues raised in the commission’s further notice, the group said. Because the bill-and-keep regime is now subject to various petitions for review consolidated in the U.S. 10th Circuit of Court of Appeals, the issues the commission raised in its notice are “problematic at best because the immediate transition for terminating access charges may be overturned,” the filing said.