Home Page > Utility Regulation > Telecommunications > Competitive Interests Forum > Competitive Topics Forum 08/21/02
Competitive Topics Forum
8/21/02
The meeting began at 10:30 a.m. with discussion of a briefing to update the Commissioners
on the activities of the Forum. The briefing would take place at an Internal Affairs
meeting. There was discussion on what form the presentation would take and whether
companies would like to make presentations. Agreement was reached that the FPSC
staff should prepare a brief written summary of Forum activities and then companies
could make oral presentations if they chose to do so.
Topics PO-1 (End User Migration Process) and MGT-1 (ALEC Exit Strategy) were discussed
simultaneously. Documents that were prepared by Verizon based on materials from
New York served as the focus for discussion of the topics. Recognizing that an undocketed
rule workshop on similar issues was scheduled by Florida PSC staff for October 16,
2002, the decision was made to prepare something based on the Verizon materials
for discussion at the rule workshop. David Christian with Verizon agreed to coordinate
a subgroup to modify the Verizon materials based on comments from the Forum participants
and then to use those modified documents as a resource for the PSC staff rule workshop.
There was some discussion of major areas of concern with the materials and David
asked that Forum participants submit to him their comments by September 20, 2002.
He would then work with a subgroup to prepare something for the October 16 workshop.
He asked that along with comments on the document, the Forum participants provide
the name of a person who would work on the subgroup.
In regard to topics MKT-1 (Winback campaign) and MKT-2 (Marketing Practices) , BellSouth
reported that an ALEC representative was currently reviewing a Code of Conduct paper
that had been presented in Georgia. That paper deals with marketing issues such
as not disparaging a competitor to a customer. When that has been finalized, BellSouth
will distribute copies to the commission staff.
Concerning Topic B-2 (Self-help), BellSouth indicated that the FCC had suspended
its proposed tariff on deposits.
Concerning Topic B-1 (Delays Billing New Contract Rates), Stan Greer with BellSouth
indicated that he would provide a status report on how BellSouth is dealing with
that topic. On Topic O-2 (Change Control) parties filed comments on that in Georgia
in July; next step is a staff recommendation there.
Participants discussed planning for two upcoming meetings. The first would be around
September 18 to receive updates on several pending Topics and the other will be
in October prior to the FPSC staff workshop on the customer migration rule.