Maine PUC Pauses FairPoint Probe Amid Settlement Talks
The Maine Public Utilities Commission suspended the procedural schedule in the agency’s probe into FairPoint service quality reports while settlement talks continue, PUC Hearing Examiner Jody McColman said in a Friday notice in docket 2014-00376. The PUC held a settlement…
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hearing behind closed doors Thursday. The PUC in October proposed $500,000 in civil penalties for service quality violations from Q3 2014 to Q2 2016, but the company protested the amount and blamed failures on reasons out of its control (see 1702230052). The agency also is mulling FairPoint's acquisition by Consolidated Communications (see 1703160040). FairPoint didn’t comment.