Arizona and Tennessee joined seven other states in urging that th...
Arizona and Tennessee joined seven other states in urging that the FCC deny an AT&T forbearance petition seeking relief from accounting rules requiring separate recording of intra- and interstate costs (CD April 23 p9). “There is really no effective…
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substitute” for such controls, the Arizona Corporate Commission said in a letter urging commissioners to reject similar petitions by Verizon and Qwest. The data AT&T wants to stop collecting are “often the only public source of available data” on costs, revenue and access line counts, the Tennessee Regulatory Authority said. Tennessee uses the data to evaluate competition and may need them if it adopts a state universal service fund, it said. Tennessee knows “changes may be necessary in the existing FCC rules” to address AT&T’s woes, it said. But the FCC should defer to the Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations, which already is working on the issue, it said. Besides Arizona and Tennessee, the AT&T petition has drawn opposition from the Joint Board’s state members, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Washington, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, California, Wisconsin and New Jersey. FCC commissioners have until midnight Thursday to vote on AT&T’s petition.