ALJ/SRT/hl2 Mailed 7/27/2007
Decision 07-07-029 July 26, 2007
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Application of Verizon California Inc. (U 1002 C) to Withdraw from the Centralized Credit Check System. |
Application 07-04-005 |
PROPOSED DECISION GRANTING VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC.'S APPLICATION TO WITHDRAW FROM
CENTRALIZED CREDIT CHECK SYSTEM
Summary
This decision grants the application of Verizon California Inc. (Verizon) to withdraw from the Centralized Credit Check System (CCCS) we instituted in Decision (D.) 85-03-017. We set up the CCCS in 1985 for what were then the seven largest local phone companies as a two- to three-year trial of sharing information on customers who are known credit risks because "they skipped out without paying the closing bill owed to the telephone utility which previously served them." The goal of the CCCS was to increase revenue collected by the companies and thereby reduce the amounts collected from paying customers to make up for customers who did not pay their bills.
Verizon states that the CCCS is no longer cost-effective, and that it does not currently use CCCS data in making California credit decisions because it no longer takes deposits from its California residential customers. It notes that we have allowed other carriers to withdraw from the system. No party protests the application. We agree with Verizon that it is appropriate to allow it to withdraw from the CCCS, and therefore grant the application. This proceeding is closed.
