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Comments are due June 25 in docket 14-89...

Comments are due June 25 in docket 14-89 on an AT&T Communications Act Section 214 petition to discontinue business directory assistance service. The services have been offered to business with PBX phone systems as a means to provide phone listings…

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through the businesses’ phone systems, said an FCC public notice (http://bit.ly/1n489x1). AT&T plans to discontinue these services around July 1, and notified its customers of the proposed discontinuances by U.S. mail on April 10, it told the FCC. “AT&T maintains that the public convenience and necessity will not be impaired by the proposed discontinuance because there are alternative services available and customers will be able to reprogram their PBX and continue to have access to directory assistance services by dialing 411,” the notice said.