FCC Sets Pleading Cycle on One of Two AT&T Recon Petitions on Aureon Orders
Oppositions are due Sept. 19, replies Sept. 26 on an AT&T request the FCC reconsider a July 31 order requiring Aureon Network Services to further revise its tariffed rate for interstate switched transport (see 1807310061), said a Wireline Bureau public…
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notice in Wednesday's Daily Digest. A "CLEC benchmark rate" for Aureon's centralized equal access service should be "based on the mileage that CenturyLink [the 'competing ILEC'] would charge for the competitive service," not on Aureon's mileage, said AT&T's petition Aug. 30 in docket 18-60. Another AT&T petition the next day in proceeding No. 17-56 asked the FCC to reconsider an Aug. 1 order that largely denied a previous Aureon recon petition but granted it in one respect, on damages AT&T is due (see 1808020030). AT&T said the FCC should decide the "full amount" of damages, "rather than simply assuming that the 2012 tariff rate is the operative rate for the entire mid-2013 to 2018 period."