State Officials Brace for Longer Separations Freeze

摘要

The FCC may not be able to act by July on jurisdictional separations, given a short time frame and the demands of work underway on the National Broadband Plan, representatives of state commissions and consumer advocates said. They won't be surprised if the FCC again extends the nearly nine-year-old freeze on separations, which expires June 30, they said.rn"Another freeze is certainly a possibility," said Commissioner John Burke of the Vermont Public Service Board. If the FCC does impose another freeze, state regulators believe "interim changes to key factors are an absolute pre-requisite to extending final comprehensive review beyond June of this year," Burke said.