State regulators around the country are taking up the issues refe...
State regulators around the country are taking up the issues referred to them in the FCC’s Triennial Review Order (TRO) on network unbundling. The commissions of Ill., Ind., Mich., Ohio and Wis. plan to hold a regional workshop session…
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at Ill. Commerce Commission headquarters Oct. 16-17 to prioritize the issues and establish paths for communication and information exchange. The N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC)established 2 dockets to address TRO issues. One is for the 90-day review on whether competition in the large- business local market segment would be impaired without access to unbundled switching (Case P-100, Sub 133P). The agency told the state’s 4 largest incumbents to file by Sept. 19 information on how many UNE combinations of DS-1 loops and unbundled switching they had in service. CLECs have until Oct. 3 to challenge the presumption that unbundled switching isn’t needed for effective large-business competition. The other docket (Case P-100, sub 133Q) is the 9-month case on the mass market’s need for unbundled switching. No procedural schedule has been set. The Tenn. Regulatory Authority (TRA) gave parties until Sept. 24 to file their challenges to the FCC’s presumption that unbundled local switching wasn’t needed in the large-business market. The TRA (Case 03-00490) said challengers must identify the specific markets that would be impaired absent unbundled switching and provide evidence to support their impairment claims. The Mass Dept. of Telecom & Energy (DTE) plans hearings Nov. 12-14 in its TRO docket (Case DTE 03-59) on switching for large business customers, with final briefs by Dec. 4. The Mich. PSC asked SBC to respond by Sept. 24 on whether it planned to amend the cost studies underlying its wholesale rates in the wake of publication of the full TRO. SBC in May asked the PSC to increase its UNE rates to cost and comments were to be filed by Nov. 10. The PSC last month acknowledged the TRO could affect the UNE price case and said the procedural schedule could be changed if amendments were needed because of the TRO.