CWA, PULP Urge New York PSC to Reject Redactions on T-Mobile/Sprint

posted Tuesday in docket 18-C-0396. The union Monday said the applicants abused PSC process for public comment when they commented on their July 6 application, which CWA and PULP said was legally deficient to begin with (see 1811190026). Now, CWA and PULP ask the PSC to convene evidentiary and public hearings, remove applicants’ Friday filings from the record and extend the comment deadline to Dec. 15. Sprint and T-Mobile's “heavily redacted” comments Friday were “a substantial supplement or amendments to the July 6 Petition, making new assertions of fact and policy, and should not be accepted into the record,” said the groups. “Use of the public comment process to recast the Petition, to attempt to repair the fatal defects in the Petition, and to insulate this new information from public comment is fundamentally unfair." Under agency rules, applicants "may submit comments in response to a notice seeking comments on their petitions,” a spokesperson emailed. “It’s not typical, but there’s also nothing irregular or improper.” The carriers didn’t comment. At the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Sprint filed responses Monday to staff questions. The carrier reported the deal was cleared in Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Sprint expects Virginia to decide by Dec. 11 and said reviews are pending in California, Hawaii, Mississippi, New Jersey and New York.