The Vermont Public Service Board now has a...
The Vermont Public Service Board now has a procedural schedule for examining “whether so-called ‘fixed VoIP’ is an ‘information service’ or a ’telecommunications service’ within the meaning of applicable federal law.” That’s as the Vermont Supreme Court ordered this spring…
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(CD April 2 p14), said board documents filed Thursday. The proceeding will focus on how Comcast’s fixed VoIP service meets that definition under federal law, said the board. Comcast must file supplemental prefiled testimony by June 7 and discovery requests by June 21, with Comcast discovery responses due July 11, supplemental prefiled testimony from other parties Aug. 6, discovery request on other parties Aug. 20, responses Sept. 6 and a status conference Sept. 12. If necessary, the board will hold a technical hearing Oct. 2. Direct briefs are due Oct. 17, replies Oct. 28. “Although the participants at the April 30 status conference were not optimistic about the possibility of factual stipulations, there is no reason to assume that many material facts will ultimately be in dispute given the narrow question now at issue in this docket,” wrote Hearing Officer Donald Kreis. He was referring to a list of participants that included the Department of Public Service, Comcast, the Voice on the Net Coalition and several phone companies. “I will therefore expect the parties to come to the status conference in September prepared to identify the material facts that are truly disputed,” wrote Kreis.