FCC Bureau Denies Transworld Objections To Release of Its Business Data
The FCC Wireline Bureau denied TransWorld Network objections to the release of its sensitive business data, subject to a protective order, in the special-access rulemaking. TransWorld objected to the release of the data until potential reviewing parties disclosed whether they…
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specifically sought to view the company's confidential and highly confidential data, and their reasons for wanting to do so. AT&T and the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates had asked the bureau to dismiss the four TransWorld objections. In an order Tuesday denying TransWorld's objections in docket 05-25, the bureau said all 86 potential reviewing parties challenged by TransWorld had executed acknowledgements certifying they were seeking access to the data solely to participate in the rulemaking. It also said it was sticking with a previous decision to make available to all potential reviewers all the business data the FCC collected from industry parties and not require individual reviewers to specify which data they wanted to examine.