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Competitive Topics Forum
10/9/03
The meeting began at 10:30 a.m. Updates were provided on several Topics.
Topic B-1 (Delays for billing new contract rates) was the first item discussed.
Stan Greer with BellSouth indicated that the original plan developed was too costly
and a less expensive approach is being developed by Bell.
On Topic B-3 (EMI records show local as access), ITC DeltaCom indicated that BellSouth
was going to be taking the lead at OBF to attempt to find a solution.
Topic EEL-3 (Credits for EEL conversions) has not yet been addressed by the Forum;
the Forum is awaiting examples fro XO on this topic.
On Topic O-10 (Single point of contact for EELs problems), Bob Buerosse with Allegiance
indicated that he would be getting with BellSouth on developing additional hyperlinks
to Bell on-line documents and would report back at the next Forum meeting.
Topic O-12 (LCSC E-mail process for manual order notices) is an issue in terms of
how orders are responded to; the ALECs generally prefer that fax orders be responded
to by fax and E-mail orders by E-mail. BellSouth indicated that a software fix (Release
17) would address this issue in August, 2004 and that in the meantime, beginning
January, 2004, jeopardy notices would be posted on the BellSouth Web site.
In regard to Topic P-3 (10 digit translations), BellSouth indicated that it would
provide a schedule for rolling this into an OSS project.
Topic P-4 (Number reassignments) was closed at the August 28, 2003 meeting but Sharon
Norris indicated she would check with Denise Bergen to see if she could determine
how this issue was resolved; Sharon will report back to the next meeting.
On Topic PO-2 (Pending facilities), BellSouth is working on an abbreviated categorization
system for identifying the work needed when an order shows that facilities are pending.
Stan Greer indicated that this issue may be impacted by the Triennial Review Order
at the FCC.
Topic UNE-4 (Terminology between Resale & UNE-P) was closed. This issue has
resolved itself at a business level over time.
Open issues on Topic PO-1 (End user migration) were discussed at length. Discussion
on Issue 1 (ILEC provision of CSR information for CLEC customers) centered on legal
implications of CPNI and Florida statutory confidentiality provisions as well as
differentiating between customers being provided service by resale/UNE-P versus
facilities. On Issue 2 (Indication on CSR of termination liability), there was discussion
on whether a simple yes/no flag could be on the record or whether information about
the termination date and charges could be included. Also discussed was whether information
could be provided on a Web site rather than the CSR. Another option discussed was
to just provide the contract information on customer (or carrier) request. On Issue
3 (Provision of circuit ID information), participants discussed differentiating
between resale/UNE-P and facilities-based customers. A need was identified for making
clear that this issue deals only with voice grade service. AT&T will review
its position on this issue to see if it continues to want to pursue it. A subissue
was proposed by Network Telephone to clarify how to deal with situations where more
than one telephone service is being provided over a single line. Discussion on Issue
4 (Reduce time for returning a confirmation from 2 to 1 day one year for CLECs after
rule becomes effective) dealt with the need to develop a rule requirement for CLECs
in line with the Metrics requirements for the LECs, recognizing that each LEC's
Metric requirement is different. Topic PO-1 will be discussed further at the next
meeting of the Forum. For the next meeting of the Forum, participants are to review
the Open Issues list for Topic PO-1as well as the rule itself and provide updated
comments on both to Richard Tudor by November 13, 2004.
The next meeting of the Forum was scheduled for Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 10:30
a.m. Updates are to be provided at the meeting on the above Topics with the majority
of discussion on Topic PO-2 (End user migration).