Consumer Group Urges California PUC to Stay Verizon, Frontier Proceeding
The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to stay its proceedings regarding Verizon's acquisition of Frontier. In a motion filed Friday, the group asked that the currently scheduled hearings be removed from the commission's calendar so there's enough time to conduct discovery.
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A July 23 CPUC ruling ordered both companies to submit third supplemental testimony (see 2502200056). "The testimony from Joint Applicants is lengthy, and both Verizon and Frontier’s testimonies include extensive revisions of past statements of diversity commitments which are ambiguous, unsupported, or dubious," CforAT said: "Listing and detailing those flaws will be a lengthy and time-consuming process."