Connecticut Light and Power acknowledged in a filing...
Connecticut Light and Power acknowledged in a filing Tuesday that the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) declined to include CL&P’s requested conditions in its draft decision approving Frontier Communications’ proposed purchase of AT&T’s broadband, video and wireline assets in…
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the state (http://bit.ly/1vQMfUC). CL&P had asked PURA to require AT&T to pay $9.25 million in storm damage cleanup costs before the deal was completed. PURA said it didn’t have statutory authority to interpret CL&P’s dispute with AT&T as part of its Frontier/AT&T Connecticut review and suggested CL&P pursue the issue in court or via another state agency (CD Oct 1 p13 ). CL&P said it sued AT&T subsidiary LEC Southern New England Telephone Co. (SNET) in Connecticut Superior Court to pursue cost recovery. CL&P urged PURA to clarify in its final decision in Frontier/AT&T Connecticut that the commission has authority in future proceedings to exercise jurisdiction over disputes between CL&P and SNET, whose assets Frontier will own after the AT&T deal. CL&P also asked PURA to formalize three of Frontier’s voluntary commitments on SNET’s joint pole line agreement with CL&P. PURA didn’t incorporate suggested conditions from the Connecticut Internet Service Providers Association, but CTISPA as expected (CD Oct 6 p4) didn’t file exceptions to the draft decision. Connecticut divisions of Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications and MetroCast Communications said in a joint filing that they want PURA to formally incorporate their separate settlement with Frontier into the PURA decision. The cable companies’ settlement resolved issues on interconnection, local number portability, tandem transit service and reciprocal compensation rates. PURA’s draft decision acknowledged the cable companies’ settlement but didn’t formally incorporate it into the commission decision, the cable companies said (http://bit.ly/1CVbLu2). CL&P and the cable companies said they weren’t requesting oral argument over their exceptions, but reserved the right to request them later if other parties sought oral arguments. Other parties, including Frontier and AT&T (http://bit.ly/1oR3I9h), said they had no objections to the draft decision and urged PURA to formally approve the deal.