ALJ/KJB/oma Date of Issuance 10/29/2010
Decision 10-10-028 October 28, 2010
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Application by Pacific Bell Telephone Company (U1001C) d/b/a AT&T California for Arbitration of an Interconnection Agreement with SureWest Telephone (U1015C) d/b/a SureWest Broadband and SureWest TeleVideo (U6324C) d/b/a SureWest Broadband Pursuant to Section 252(b) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. |
Application 09-12-022 (Filed December 18, 2009) |
DECISION AFFIRMING FINAL ARBITRATOR'S REPORT
We affirm the Final Arbitrator's Report determining that the proposed Interconnection Agreement between SureWest Telephone Company and Pacific Bell Telephone Company shall be amended by deleting from Section 1.3 thereof the prohibition against assigning telephone numbers to end users with services addresses outside the rate center to which the NXX is assigned. This proceeding is closed.
Background
Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T California) filed an application for arbitration of its proposed interconnection agreement (ICA) with SureWest Telephone d/b/a SureWest Broadband (SureWest) pursuant to Section 252(b) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on December 18, 2009. SureWest filed its response on January 15, 2010 and a revised statement of unresolved issues on January 22, 2010. A prehearing conference was held on March 25, 2010 at which the arbitrator determined that there were no disputed factual issues and set the time for filing briefs on a single legal issue: whether Section 1.3 of AT&T California's proposed ICA1 should be included or excluded from the text of the finally-adopted ICA. On April 9, 2010 the parties filed concurrent opening briefs. Also on April 9, 2010, SureWest filed a motion asking the Commission to take official notice of SBC California2 Advice
Letter 27449, dated October 7, 2005. On April 16, 2010, the parties filed concurrent reply briefs.
A Draft Arbitrator's Report was filed on June 17, 2010. Comments were received on June 28, 2010. A Final Arbitrator's Report was filed on September 17, 2010.
1 1.3 Parties shall port telephone numbers only to those end users with a service address in the rate center to which the NXX of that ported number is assigned, and assign telephone numbers only to those end users with a service address in the rate center to which the NXX is assigned, subject to exceptions (e.g., Foreign Exchange Service) as noted in the number resource guidelines.
2 AT&T California was previously known by the "d/b/a" SBC California.
