Any Alaskan telecom relay service (TRS) provider should “remain mindful of...
Any Alaskan telecom relay service (TRS) provider should “remain mindful of the confidential nature of the data it will handle,” a rural coalition of telcos told the Regulatory Commission of Alaska Wednesday. These data are “competitively sensitive,” it said. Alaska’s…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
relay provider, Communications Services for the Deaf, receives data from the state’s telcos and had previously put the data in a public monthly report, with “granular detail, including subscriber line counts broken down by business and residential customers,” it said. Once the concern was raised, the relay provider submitted the data in a redacted form, the coalition said. It proposed an alternative to redacted filings, and suggested the TRS provider give “a public compilation of all LEC data, presented as aggregations of all individual LECs’ data by category (i.e. residential lines, single-line business lines, multi-line business lines).” The coalition asked future TRS applicants to remember the confidential nature of the data, especially due to what it called a far more competitive telecom market of the last decade.