Several companies asked the Wisconsin Public Service Commission Tuesday for...
Several companies asked the Wisconsin Public Service Commission Tuesday for more time to respond to a request from the city of Milwaukee (http://1.usa.gov/Y8MucC) in a proceeding involving a proposed Milwaukee streetcar route and how it will affect utilities’ facilities. The…
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joint parties include AT&T Wisconsin, Time Warner Cable, the Wisconsin Cable Communications Association, tw telecom of Wisconsin, PAETEC Communications, McLeodUSA Telecom, and Norlight Telecommunications. Milwaukee submitted a request for interlocutory review that originally called for Thursday responses. “It is not reasonable to respond to the City’s filing in less than ten business days,” the companies said. The stakeholders want to delay the deadline to March 4. The city of Milwaukee questioned much of the proceeding, including what rules apply to its streetcar project and the authority of these companies to bring their objections forward: “The City anticipates that the parties will soon start engaging in very extensive discovery, including discovery requests that ask the Utilities to identify each and every facility that will need to be relocated to accommodate the streetcar project and the year in which those facilities were installed,” Milwaukee said in its request. It noted that if the companies are “not properly in this case, then all the parties, Commission staff, and the PSCW itself will waste considerable resources in dealing with facts that are of no consequence."