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Cox Communications has ended its fight against Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation in Arkansas...

Cox Communications has ended its fight against Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation in Arkansas and requested the state public service commission dismiss its December 2011 complaint with prejudice. The two parties “have reached a settlement and have memorialized the terms of…

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that agreement in a separate and confidential writing, and those parties’ respective rights and obligations under that agreement shall remain in full force and effect,” Cox told the PSC Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bnoh4i). The commission then dismissed the complaint in an order the same day (http://xrl.us/bnoh4r). The initial complaint alleged the electric utility had “imposed unreasonable engineering and construction standards, adopted abusive and dilatory access processes, and has assessed excessive application, engineering, and pole access charges on Cox, in violation of the parties’ pole attachment agreements and in violation of Arkansas” code as well as “intentionally and repeatedly destroyed Cox’s facilities and has performed work on poles that creates safety violations with respect to Cox’s facilities, and puts Cox’s employees and the public at risk” (http://xrl.us/bnoh78).