FCC 4-0 Rejects 2 AT&T Petitions to Reconsider Orders in Aureon Tariff Dispute
The FCC unanimously nixed two AT&T requests to revisit orders in its tariff dispute with Aureon Network Services (Iowa Network Services). Commissioners dismissed and denied AT&T's Aug. 30 petition to reconsider a July 31 tariff investigation order by calculating a…
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CLEC benchmark rate for Aureon's centralized equal access service using the mileage that AT&T says CenturyLink, the competing ILEC, would charge. The request "fails on both procedural and substantive grounds," said a reconsideration order Wednesday in docket 18-60. Members dismissed and denied AT&T's Aug. 31 petition to further reconsider an earlier recon order that found a 2012 Aureon tariff remained in effect, absent a showing of improper accounting to hide potential rate-of-return violations. AT&T repeats "many arguments that the Commission has already fully considered and rejected," said a second order on recon, in docket 17-56: It's "too late" for AT&T's new argument that the 2012 tariff rate exceeded a benchmark that took effect July 1, 2013, when it didn't make the claim in its original complaint. AT&T is "reviewing the orders and considering next steps," emailed a spokesperson.