Eight Mich. CLECs plus CLEC trade groups CompTel and ASCENT urged...
Eight Mich. CLECs plus CLEC trade groups CompTel and ASCENT urged Mich. PSC to “carefully consider” last week’s Ameritech notice of its intent to file with FCC for Sec. 271 interLATA long distance authority by Oct. CLEC interests said…
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Ameritech’s filing (Case U-12320) “unilaterally announces a new plan of action” for PSC’s review of 271 application that disregards process and timetable that PSC and all other parties agreed to in Feb. 2000 for 271 review. CLECs said new procedure Ameritech was attempting to establish didn’t include list of mandatory conditions PSC said last year that Ameritech must meet before it sought agency’s endorsement. CLECs criticized Ameritech for deciding to file its entire body of checklist compliance evidence at once instead of taking items one at time, as PSC originally intended. Ameritech indicated compliance filing would be made this week. CLECs asked PSC to: (1) Change company’s new proposal, defer compliance filing until 3rd-party operation support system (OSS) test neared completion. (2) Allow CLECs at least 6 weeks for comments at each comment-reply cycle in schedule instead of Ameritech’s proposed 4 weeks. (3) Reject carrier’s proposed changes in KPMG Consulting’s OSS test evaluation process. (4) Set date certain for company to file 3 months’ actual performance data.