Continuing conflict between CLEC Supra Telecom and BellSouth saw ...
Continuing conflict between CLEC Supra Telecom and BellSouth saw action on new battlefront in Ga. Supra urged Ga. PSC to reject BellSouth request to deny final approval of interconnection agreement between carriers. BS said agreement wouldn’t be in public…
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interest because of questionable Supra financial practices and demonstrated history of disputing every charge on every bill for wholesale services in order to avoid payment. Its experiences with Supra over billing in Fla. led it to ask Fla. regulators for authority to disconnect Supra’s wholesale service for nonpayment, BS said. It said Supra resorted to bankruptcy in Oct. in order to avoid disconnection that otherwise would have occurred. BS acknowledged its request was unusual but said these were unusual circumstances. It said situation with Supra could affect hundreds of thousands of Fla. customers and it wanted to forestall similar situation in Ga. Supra said BS’s request was based on “scandalous” allegations that had no relevance to situation in Ga. It said BS had raised no legitimate legal objections based on circumstances that existed in Ga. Supra noted that PSC had given preliminary approval to agreement Nov. 12 and that nothing in Ga. had changed since. It said it filed for bankruptcy in order to secure protection from what it termed BellSouth’s abusive and anticompetitive tactics. Supra said BS’ selection of facts to cite in its petition misrepresented actual situation.