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incomplete OSS testing process filed by KPMG Consulting that said OSS was deficient at this stage. KPMG report showed Ameritech passed on just 26 performance metrics test points, with 133 metrics test points grading unsatisfactory and 117 graded as incomplete. Ameritech fared best in systems process testing, passing on 270 test points and getting unsatisfactory grade on just 3, with 9 incompletes. On transaction validation and verification portion, Ameritech passed on 158 test points, got unsatisfactory on 26 and incomplete on 8. Adding up all 3 major testing areas shows Ameritech received passing grade on 60% of 750 total test points and unsatisfactory or incomplete on 40%. Ameritech said it undeniably had opened its local markets to competition, and in real world its OSS successfully handled more than 25,000 CLEC orders and inquiries every business day. It proposed that performance metrics testing by KPMG continue while PSC evaluated other evidence in Ameritech’s interLATA long distance entry case (U-12320). SBC said favorable draft OSS test results for critical processing and transaction functions provided support for its contention that its OSS was meeting day-to-day demands of CLECs. Ameritech said FCC approved BellSouth Sec. 271 applications for Ga. and La. while performance metrics audits were continuing. But AT&T said that while Ameritech claimed local marketplace was giving it “A” on OSS readiness, “it appears that KPMG is giving the company an ‘F’ on the quality of its OSS.” OSS testing originally was to have been completed in May, but has been delayed several times and now is tentatively set for completion in Nov. PSC, at Ameritech’s request, asked KPMG to file report on current OSS testing status. PSC will hold workshops on report Oct. 14-15 and hearings Nov. 25 and Ameritech plans further comment once it has studied entire 1,000-page KPMG draft.