CPUC Proposes Keeping Jobs, Speed Conditions on T-Mobile/Sprint
The California Public Utilities Commission may mostly deny T-Mobile’s request to modify conditions from the agency’s mid-April order clearing the carrier to buy Sprint (see 2007230050). Under a proposed decision Friday in docket A.18-07-011, the CPUC would grant the carrier’s…
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request for more time to comply with network deployment and performance conditions, but Administrative Law Judge Karl Bemesderfer rejected on procedural grounds the carrier challenging a condition to hire 1,000 more employees. T-Mobile needed to file an application for rehearing but missed the deadline, Bemesderfer said. The CPUC would decline to change another challenged condition that T-Mobile comply with the agency’s CalSpeed program. “While we recognize that there is a possibility of conflict between state and federal performance standards, we find that the benefits of measuring T-Mobile’s compliance with California-specific conditions with the CalSPEED test outweigh the possible inconvenience of having the same activity measured two different ways,” wrote Bemesderfer. Commissioners may vote on the proposal at their Nov. 19 meeting. T-Mobile couldn’t be reached for comment.