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The FCC should grant Public Knowledge and the...

The FCC should grant Public Knowledge and the National Consumer Law Center’s request to require AT&T to make public the timeline of its IP transition trials, PK Senior Staff Attorney Jodie Griffin and Government Affairs and Outreach Associate Clarissa Ramon…

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told FCC Wireline Bureau and Office of General Counsel officials in a phone call July 30, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1pUcaUR) posted in docket 12-353 Friday. That AT&T voluntarily disclosed that it will not seek approval to stop offering traditional TDM-based services until at least the second half of 2015 does not address all of the concerns raised by NCLC and PK, the filing said. “AT&T’s disclosure reveals the general timeframe for its proposed trials but does not allow the public to understand or comment on the proposed timing between various steps in AT&T’s trial proposal.” AT&T in its ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1s68C4K) about a May 27 meeting with a bureau official said it would be “inappropriate to identify a specific date” for starting the approval process to retire TDM service, because of the “competitive sensitivity” of the information.