FPL Says Verizon Pole-Attachment Plea Asks FCC To Save Telco From Itself
Florida Power & Light was dismissive of Verizon's request for urgent FCC intervention in their pole attachment dispute (see 1602030050). "Verizon needs to be saved from itself because it has chosen, unilaterally and unlawfully, to withhold from FPL and its…
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customers nearly $6.5 million, an amount which increases with every passing day, pursuant to a contract under which both companies operated amicably in a successful infrastructure development partnership for decades. Had Verizon adhered to the Commission's precedent prohibiting self-help or its own standard customer service contract policy, there would be no parallel litigation, no pending appeal and no default," said FPL in a filing Monday in docket 15-73. Contrary to Verizon's "misrepresentation," the utility made no threat to "disrupt service" or "remove Verizon's facilities," but has said only that if the telco doesn't cure its default, FPL will "terminate Verizon's rights to attach to any of FPL's poles. ... While FPL has put Verizon on notice that FPL is asserting and preserving its rights to collect the millions Verizon owes, Verizon can easily solve the problem of its own making at any time by paying its debt."