PK Supports AT&T Discontinuance Petition for Oklahoma
Public Knowledge supported an AT&T request to discontinue, effective Sept. 15, residential local service in nine wire centers in Oklahoma “where there is virtually no demand for the service.” The FCC Wireline Bureau sought comment on the application, due Thursday…
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in docket 24-220. PK was the first to file. The group’s “sole addendum is to request that AT&T make regular reports in this docket as to the progress of the transition,” said a filing Monday. “This will assist the Commission and the public to monitor the progress of the transition, and provide other incumbent local exchange carriers with a guide to conducting their own transitions.” AT&T said last month it grandfathered the service in 60 wire centers in 13 states, with FCC approval. The local service is “outdated and prohibitively expensive for AT&T to maintain,” AT&T said: Discontinuing it “will benefit the public and serve as an important step toward meeting both AT&T’s and the Commission’s goals of advancing the IP revolution.”