ISPs Say Revised FCC Form 477 Procedures Support Case Against CPUC
Recent FCC edits to procedures for accessing nonpublic Form 477 subscription data don’t change that the agency “has exclusive authority over all decision-making regarding the dissemination of Form 477 data,” Comcast told a federal court. What states may do with…
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carriers’ Form 477 data has been central to a dispute between telecom companies and the California Public Utilities Commission and The Utility Reform Network in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. A TURN attorney said the FCC modifications supported its side (see 1610130061), but Comcast disagreed Friday in a letter (in Pacer) to U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. “Federal law bars the CPUC from unilaterally ordering Plaintiffs to share their Form 477 data with third parties (regardless of the terms of any protective order that the CPUC fashions to govern this forced disclosure),” Comcast wrote.