CPUC Urges FCC to Discard April BDS Data in USTelecom Forbearance Review
It wouldn’t be right for the FCC to cite business data services statistics from an April 15 notice (see 1905140017) in support of a USTelecom petition to remove a mandate that incumbent LECs provide transport network services to CLECs as…
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an unbundled network element, the California Public Utilities Commission commented in docket 18-141 (see 1905130050). “Doing so would be inconsistent with the Commission’s forbearance rules, and would violate basic principles of procedural fairness,” the CPUC said Thursday. The FCC’s “complete-as-filed rule” says that the “party seeking forbearance bears the burden of production,” and allowing the data so late in the proceeding doesn’t give other parties enough time to complete comments “without unreasonably burdening their resources,” the CPUC said.