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Consumer Group Urges California PUC to Stay Verizon, Frontier Proceeding

The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to stay its proceeding on Verizon's acquisition of Frontier. The group asked in a motion filed Friday that scheduled hearings be taken off the commission's calendar so…

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that there's enough time for discovery. A July 23 CPUC ruling ordered both companies to submit third supplemental testimony (see 2502200056). "The testimony from Joint Applicants is lengthy, and both Verizon and Frontier’s testimonies include extensive revisions of past statements of diversity commitments which are ambiguous, unsupported, or dubious," CforAT said: "Listing and detailing those flaws will be a lengthy and time-consuming process."