The Colorado Public Utilities Commission shot down CenturyLink’s latest appeal...
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission shot down CenturyLink’s latest appeal of the PUC’s telecom deregulation order. The PUC adopted its new order in December and modified it since due to several appeals at the beginning of the year. CenturyLink asked…
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for more changes at the beginning of March, focusing on white page directory listing obligations and how those should factor into the PUC’s effective competition rulings. “We disagree with CenturyLink’s threshold premise that maintaining regulation over ‘any’ aspect of telephone service is discriminatory and inconsistent with Commission policy,” the PUC said in its Wednesday order denying CenturyLink (http://bit.ly/10SoLBb). “The information constituting white page directory listing -- a customer’s name, address, and telephone number -- is correlated to emergency services due to its necessity to the Automatic Location Identification (ALI) database providers for the provision of 9-1-1 services and emergency notification services.” The PUC pointed to the significance of these directory listings, in contrast to CenturyLink’s arguments. “Emergency and related services are more than ‘competitive features,'” the PUC said. “They are vital to the public interest, and market forces cannot ensure the availability of basic emergency services, including 9-1-1 services, in time of need."