Charter, Verizon Ask CPUC to Reconsider Pole Order
Cable and phone companies that attach equipment to poles sought rehearing of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Oct. 21 pole attachment data order. The unanimous CPUC order (D.20-07-004) required pole owners to include detailed information about electric and communications attachments…
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(see 2110210054 and 2108230009). Compliance under the decision’s time frame is “unworkable,” said Charter Communications, Cox, Verizon and XO Communications Monday. Findings of fact and the record don’t support the two-phased time frame that gives 12 months for the first submission, they said: Attachers need at least 36 months for full compliance and want one phase only. The companies would support the commission requiring data to be submitted first in high fire-threat districts, they said.