Telcos Seek Permanent Injunction Against CPUC
Telecom companies urged a district court to preclude the California Public Utilities Commission from compelling disclosure of Form 477 data to a third party. AT&T, Comcast, CTIA, Verizon and other industry plaintiffs sought a permanent injunction in a motion (in…
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Pacer) Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. May 20, the court temporarily banned the CPUC from enforcing a May 3 ruling compelling top ISPs to disclose the data to The Utilities Reform Network, or any third party, as part of a state investigation of market competition (see 1605240014). Earlier in the week, the telecom entities said a CPUC division already has violated that preliminary injunction by disclosing the data to an outside consultant (see 1606290061). Disclosure of Form 477 data, which includes information about phone and broadband deployment, “conflicts with, and poses an obstacle to the fulfillment of, the FCC’s binding rules and policies, and is therefore preempted,” the telecom companies said. The court scheduled argument for Sept. 29.