Telcos, the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, and the office of the...
Telcos, the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, and the office of the state consumer advocate worked out a confidentiality agreement to allow a proceeding on Lifeline credit to move forward. The authority approved a schedule and protective order in a ruling released…
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Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnj36d). “A Protective Order, substantially identical to that proposed by the Consumer Advocate and Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General, shall be entered contemporaneously with this order,” the authority said. The protective order will have “full force and effect” upon entry, it added. The order establishes practices surrounding confidentiality of proceeding documents (http://xrl.us/bnj35z). An industry coalition of several telcos had submitted its own protective order draft at a Tuesday meeting with the authority, the filing said. “Each [version] has certain advantages,” the authority said, noting the consumer advocate had said the industry version had “relatively minor differences” from its own. The authority provided a partial schedule for proceedings. It established Aug. 24 as a deadline for the consumer advocate to provide anticipated discovery requests and Sept. 7 for the filing of a proposed agreed procedural schedule. The Tennessee Telecommunications Association has submitted a signed affidavit agreeing to a protective order, a Thursday filing noted, as did Level 3 Communications on Wednesday.