As expected, FCC Common Carrier Bureau set up procedures Thurs. f...
As expected, FCC Common Carrier Bureau set up procedures Thurs. for its arbitration of disputed interconnection agreements between Verizon and AT&T, Cox and WorldCom (CC Docs. 00-218, 00- 249, 00-251). Among requirements: (1) Parties must schedule prefiling conference with…
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Bureau before filing petitions for arbitration. (2) Petitions then can be filed within 30 days after conference and must include long list of information such as description of efforts to resolve differences, list of every unresolved issue, list of issues that have been resolved. FCC agreed to arbitrate after Va. State Corp. Commission declined to do so because of legal questions (CD Jan 29 p6).