The Colorado Public Utilities Commission outlined its October schedule of...
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission outlined its October schedule of proceedings for telecom reform, in an order Wednesday. The state commission wants to overhaul its telecom rules, deregulating where the market is effectively competitive and likely reducing its high-cost support…
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fund, and is holding community meetings throughout September (CD Sept 10 p5). The commission’s formal hearings will take place Oct. 1-4, it said. “We will organize the hearings based upon topics rather than a step-by-step process of the proposed rule changes,” the PUC said (http://bit.ly/OcJ4DV). “The topic areas are designed as a framework for the hearing and focus on the policy determinations underlying each proposed rule update. Legal arguments may necessarily be raised when relevant to a related topic; however, the Commission recognizes that, because the topics are intended to focus on policy concerns, depending on issues raised and inquiries by the Commission, additional discussion may be relevant to the proposed updates.” The commission described the sequence of topics to be covered, from effective competition rulings to high-cost support to how to treat VoIP providers. Reply comments on the proceeding were due Wednesday but none had not been posted online by our deadline with the exception of Sprint’s (http://bit.ly/UdUJU1). Colorado PUC Telecom Chief Lynn Notarianni won’t submit staff reply comments until Friday due to travel related to the public comment meetings, a Wednesday PUC filing said (http://bit.ly/QCtlKK).