FCC Circulating Order to Make Pole Attachment Complaints Available Online
An FCC order on circulation would modify complaint and pole attachment rules to implement a 2011 order (see 1102080088) to begin making Communications Act sections 208 and 224 complaints available on the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), an agency spokesman…
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told us. No more details were available on the proposed rule changes, but several industry attorneys told us at first glance the item does not seem significant. The 2011 order required the docketing and electronic filing of all new Section 208 formal complaints against a common carrier and new Section 224 pole attachment complaints. The Enforcement Bureau at the time said it was delaying implementing the order because the commission’s “formal complaint rules and pole attachment rules must be modified in certain respects to facilitate the docketing and electronic filing changes,” a public notice about the order said (http://bit.ly/1nzihmw). Making complaints available on ECFS would allow complaints to be examined without going to the agency, the spokesman said. “By moving things to the electronic docket, more folks can review, and perhaps learn more as to the status of pole attachment agreements and disputes,” said Best Best attorney Gerard Lederer, who represents municipalities.