FCC Draft Enforcement Item Circulated on AT&T-Aureon Dispute
The FCC circulated a draft enforcement item on an AT&T dispute with Aureon (Iowa Network Services), said the list of items updated Friday. Aureon counsel James Troup of Fletcher Heald believes the draft is a decision on the company's petition…
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for reconsideration of a Nov. 8 order on AT&T's complaint in proceeding 17-56. He said June 12 is the statutory deadline to decide Aureon’s petition, which requested the FCC apply its Nov. 8 order prospectively only. "Retroactive application of that order would violate due process, as it would have been impossible for Aureon to know several years ago that it was the only carrier in the nation that the FCC was regulating as both a dominant carrier that must file cost support in calculating its rates and a non-dominant CLEC that is subject to a rate benchmark (which for all other CLECs was adopted to avoid the need for cost studies)," Troup emailed. The agency and AT&T didn't comment Monday. Aureon (here) and South Dakota Network (here) filed rebuttals Thursday to AT&T's (here) and Sprint's (here) oppositions to Aureon's revised access charge tariffs in a Wireline Bureau investigation in docket 18-60 (see 1804200054).