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Competitive Topics Forum
12/11/02
The meeting began at 10:30 a.m. Verizon provided an update on the group working
on Topic PO-1 (End User Migration). Subgroups have been established to review various
provision of the New York order on this topic and those groups are currently meeting
and plan to provide a status report to the Forum in February or March.
Topic EEL-1 (Conversion of special access circuits to EELs) was discussed next.
BellSouth indicated that audits to determine the amount of local traffic were done
after a conversion occurred and that one-third of carriers have audits in progress.
BellSouth is to provide the web address for criteria for the spreadsheet used to
order conversions of 15 or more circuits. XO is to contact BellSouth to discuss
current problems associated with this topic.
Regarding Topic B-1 (Delays for billing new contract rates), BellSouth indicated
that funding for modifying the process would be reviewed by BellSouth management
on December 18. Status will be updated at the January Forum meeting.
On Topic O-4 (Mechanized ordering of products), it was decided to leave this topic
open with BellSouth and Covad getting together to determine if there was an impasse
on this issue.
Topic DSL-1 ("No trouble found" Repair Reports) was discussed. It is possible that
what is left to be discussed in this issue can be addressed as a part of Topic R-1.
Parties are going to review the issue to see if this one can be closed. Prior to
the meeting, Network Telephone had already indicated that it was not experiencing
the problem currently. Concern was expressed that Sprint did not contact ALEC for
agreement that the trouble no longer existed before it is closed; Sprint is going
to check on its policy of concurrence with the ALEC before closing a trouble report.
Regarding Topic P-1 (E911 Tandem to End Office Homing), ITC DeltaCom indicated in
a 12/10/02 E-mail that it had worked out a process with BellSouth to obtain needed
routing information from BellSouth on a per NPA-NXX, per request basis. The Topic
was closed.
On Topic R-1 (Extended Outages), BellSouth indicated that it had met with KMC the
day before and was meeting again on December 16 to discuss example trouble reports.
Parties will report back at a later meeting.
Topic R-2 (Escalation Procedures for After-Hours Repairs) was discussed. BellSouth
distributed Web pages from its Web site which deal with its escalation process.
KMC expressed concerns that sometimes the person that would handle a repair under
the escalation process may not always be available. BellSouth and KMC plan to meet
on December 16 to discuss further and will report back at a future meeting.
On December 9, 2002, AT&T indicated in an E-mail that it was not currently experiencing
problems with Topic UNE-1 (Provisioning and Repair Conflicts on New Service) and
recommended that the Topic be closed. At the Forum, BellSouth indicated they now
had an 800# that could be called to resolve any such conflicts between provisioning
and repair.
Following up on the November Forum meeting discussion on Topic O-3 (Pending Service
Orders), it was decided that a determination would be made as to whether ITC had
escalated this issue in the change control process and, if so, what action was taken
there. An update on this matter will be provided at the January Forum.
The next meeting of the Forum was scheduled for January 29, 2003 at 10:30 a.m.