It would take “significant manual efforts” to obtain and prepare...
It would take “significant manual efforts” to obtain and prepare certain information sought by the FCC in its upcoming special access data request, Cox Communications told Wireline Bureau officials, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnxnwt). Bureau staff asked about Cox’s…
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ability to provide its facility locations by latitude and longitude as of Dec. 31, 2010, and Dec. 31, 2012, as well as billing and other details for locations where Cox provisions at least 1.5 Mbps of dedicated service, the company said. Because Cox does not maintain a single centralized source for the requested information, it would be difficult to compile, Cox said. Cox would have to convert street addresses of its customers to the desired coordinate format, and combine information from one database that tracks its coaxial cable assets, and another that tracks its fiber assets, it said. Cox also said its pricing information was “highly confidential and very difficult for Cox to capture,” especially given the changes in its system structure since 2010. “We urged Bureau staff to narrow the request, possibly to areas that were deemed uncompetitive based on some proxy, such as market share,” Cox said.