Vt. Department Seeks Conditions on Consolidated Plan
Vermont’s public service department sought conditions on a proposed three-year incentive regulation plan for Consolidated Communications to replace an IRP that expires this year. Consolidated Communications would get more pricing flexibility in the state under the Vermont Public Utility Commission’s…
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Oct. 3 proposed order (see 2210030064). The department seeks conditions to address “remediation of host-remote isolation issues,” provide bill credits, add an emergency household service-quality metric and require 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload speeds for 98% of a municipality before it could qualify for rate and service-quality deregulation, it said in docket 22-0557-PET. They would “achieve an appropriate balance between deregulation and customer protections,” it said. Consolidated said it "has no substantive comments" on the PUC's proposed order. The telco submitted an updated IRP based on the draft's terms. It would take effect Jan. 1.