Conn. Consumer Advocate Urges Quick OTMR Action
Connecticut mustn’t continue to delay implementing one-touch, make-ready (OTMR), the state Office of Consumer Counsel said Friday. OCC filed an exception to an April 5 Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) proposed decision in docket 19-01-52 to allow pole-attachment applicants to…
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pursue self-help during the engineering phase (see 2104060001). PURA said it will take up OTMR and other issues in the proceeding’s next phase, but OCC said it should narrow it to only OTMR and decide no later than Oct. 1. "Each day that passes without completing the make-ready review and establishing a process that implements one touch make ready is another day that some households and business in Connecticut will not have access to adequate fixed broadband service,” OCC wrote: Further delays “cause uncertainty and potential disruption to meeting commencement and completion deadlines for funding under various federal programs that are being implemented and will be available for application over the next few months.” PURA set virtual oral argument for Thursday at 1 p.m. EDT and tentatively plans to vote at its May 19 meeting.